Vitol · 3 months ago
Software Engineer in Data Science
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expVitol is the world’s largest independent energy and commodities trading company, committed to facilitating the energy transition. They are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join their global data science and machine learning team, focusing on supporting GenAI tools and collaborating with commercial teams to deliver data-driven solutions.
MarketingTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Act as the primary point of contact in Houston for our GenAI toolset
In conjunction with the global Data Scientists deliver models and solutions to business users, and other technology teams across a wide range of projects and technologies
Develop, test, maintain software tools and data pipelines for machine learning
Provide software engineering and design expertise and best practices (Python) with a focus on maintainability, performance, and reliability
As needed, take ownership of key technical infrastructure
Engage with projects at any point in their lifecycle, understand and debug bespoke applications; driving performance and reliability
Manage relationships and priorities across projects, focused on maximising value
Actively participating in and leading code reviews, experiment design and tooling decisions to help drive the team’s velocity and quality
Qualification
Required
3-5+ years in industry; fluency in Python with ability to design and write clean, modular, well-documented code and a solid understanding of coding best practices
Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
Ability and desire to learn and apply new technologies
Ability to logically evolve an architecture from prototype to product, considering technical debt and delivery risk
Collaborative approach to problem solving - ability to effectively pair program
Effective technical communicator - both written and verbal; able to translate loose designs into documentation / process / operating model
Experience with data engineering, APIs, and cloud platforms (ideally AWS) and containerization technologies (Docker)
Experience with enterprise software development lifecycle and tooling including continuous integration and delivery concepts/technologies
Preferred
Experience with machine learning workflows, cloud scale machine learning infrastructure (including LLMs)
Experience in the energy or commodities trading industry, with knowledge of financial markets and trading concepts
Data orchestrators (Airflow, Dagster) and cloud-based ETL/ELT pipelines
Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits package
Company
Vitol
The Vitol Group is an energy and commodity trading company involved in exploration, production, refining, terminals, trading, marketing.
1001-5000 employees
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