Forward Deployed Data Scientist - Oil & Gas, Houston

The role

The Data Scientist will facilitate the adoption of NEXUS and collaborate with customers to address complex technical challenges. You will deploy production use cases, perform benchmarking against client baselines, and translate field insights into the product roadmap.

What you will do

• Deploy into production use cases with business impact
• Work on rigorous head-to-head benchmarking against client baselines
• Execute data engineering, feature engineering, and validation
• Collaborate with research and product teams to translate operational pain points into roadmap inputs
• Involve in technical strategy to identify business problems and handle last mile integration
• Collaborate with Sales and Solution Architect teams to align stakeholders and explain predictions

Required qualifications

• PhD / master in CS / Math / Stats or equivalent deep statistical literacy
• 3+ years as a technical individual contributor in Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Science, or ML Engineering
• Strong experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders, ideally in complex enterprise or industrial environments
• Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
• Master the end-to-end pipeline, from framing, pre-processing, ml algorithm and validation strategies
• Deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization
• Demonstrated experience optimizing models for a specific business problem
• Strong communication skills with an ability to translate architectural nuances into clear business value

Nice to have

• Experience with PyTorch and cloud-native ML pipelines (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Prior experience or understanding of Oil & Gas, energy, utilities, industrials, logistics, or heavy asset environments
• Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or Staff Data Scientist
• Industry-based subject matter expertise

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K
• Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
• Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations

About the company

Fundamental is an AI research lab pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Their flagship model, NEXUS, is a Large Tabular Model purpose-built for structured records.