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This role offers an opportunity to contribute to high-impact industrial AI initiatives across NOV’s global products and services while helping shape the growth of our India-based technical organization.\nAs the India team continues to expand, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to take on increased technical leadership responsibilities, including leading and mentoring members of the data science team in the coming year. This role is well suited for an experienced individual who enjoys solving complex engineering problems, developing practical AI solutions, and helping build a strong, collaborative technical team.\nThe successful candidate will bring strong expertise in AI/ML, industrial applications, and applied research. Depending on their background, they may contribute primarily to one or more of the following areas:\nPredictive Maintenance, Condition-Based Maintenance, and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM).\nOil and Gas, including petroleum engineering, drilling, production, and related engineering research.\n\nGenerative AI applications, including enterprise AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), intelligent engineering tools, and cloud-based AI solutions.\n\n This role requires the ability to translate research and emerging technologies into scalable, production-ready solutions that improve operational performance, engineering decision-making, asset reliability, and business outcomes.\nServe as a technical expert in Industrial AI, providing leadership and consulting support to NOV business units and engineering teams.\nIdentify high-value industrial and engineering use cases for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics.\nDesign, develop, validate, deploy, and monitor production-ready AI/ML solutions.\nLead the full data science and AI lifecycle, including problem definition, data exploration, feature engineering, model development, validation, deployment, and performance monitoring.\nDevelop solutions in one or more focus areas:\nPredictive maintenance, equipment health monitoring, anomaly detection, fault diagnosis, Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction, and maintenance optimization\n\nOil and gas applications, including drilling analytics, well and reservoir-related workflows, production optimization, and petroleum engineering research\n\nGenerative AI, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), intelligent agents, document intelligence, and AI-assisted engineering applications\n\nApply advanced methods in machine learning, deep learning, time-series modeling, computer vision, natural language processing, Generative AI, and LLMs.\nCollaborate with petroleum engineers, mechanical engineers, software developers, product teams, data engineers, and subject matter experts to convert business needs into practical AI solutions.\nDesign scalable data and analytics pipelines and contribute to cloud-based AI and MLOps platforms.\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies, conduct applied research, and translate research outcomes into industrial solutions.\nCommunicate technical findings, recommendations, and project outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nContribute to technical documentation, publications, patents, invention disclosures, and innovation initiatives.\nSupport the expansion of NOV’s data science capabilities in India by sharing knowledge, establishing best practices, and contributing to team development.\nTake on increasing leadership responsibilities, with the opportunity to lead and mentor the India-based data science team in the coming year.\nMentor junior team members and promote best practices in AI, machine learning, software engineering, and responsible technology adoption.\n We are looking for a motivated and technically strong professional who can work independently and collaboratively, manage multiple priorities, and apply advanced AI methods to real-world industrial problems. 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