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The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit Oxy\nOxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business.\nWe are looking for a motivated individual to fill the position of Machine Learning Expert within our Subsurface Innovation Imaging Team based in Houston, TX.\nEssential Job Responsibilities:\nDevelop ML and hybrid physics-ML methods for seismic imaging, inversion, and velocity model building - including ML-assisted RTM, LSRTM, and FWI.\n\nApply deep learning, generative models, neural operators, and physics-informed approaches to problems such as denoising, interpolation, image enhancement, model prediction, uncertainty estimation, and automated interpretation.\n\nBuild workflows that handle large multidimensional seismic datasets on GPU and cloud infrastructure.\n\nValidate new methods against established physics-based approaches, and make an evidence-based case for where they add value and where they do not.\n\nMove successful prototypes into production imaging workflows, with the documentation and reproducibility that requires.\n\nCommunicate results clearly to geophysicists, data scientists, and asset teams.\n\nQualifications:\nM.S. or Ph.D. in Geophysics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.\n\nMinimum 5 years of hands-on (post academic) FWI experience: you have personally run full-waveform inversion on real seismic data. Familiarity with FWI from coursework or literature alone is not sufficient for this role.\n\nDemonstrated experience applying machine learning to geophysical or other physics-based scientific problems.\n\nWorking knowledge of seismic imaging and the numerical methods behind it: wave propagation, inverse problems, and optimization.\n\nProficiency in Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch, including training, validation, and performance evaluation.\n\nExperience working with large scientific datasets and computational workflows.\n\nSound scientific judgment: the ability to design a fair comparison, recognize a result that is too good to be true, and communicate uncertainty honestly.\n\nAdditional Desired Qualifications:\nExperience with neural operators, implicit neural representations, generative models, or physics-informed neural networks applied to wave-equation problems.\n\nExperience combining wave physics with ML, including differentiable modeling and inversion.\n\nUncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, or ML-assisted optimization for expensive geophysical workflows.\n\nGPU, HPC, or distributed computing experience; AWS in particular.\n\nExperience with offshore or Gulf of America seismic data.\n\nEffective use of AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development and debugging of scientific workflows.\n\nA record of research prototypes that reached production use.\n\nOccidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.\nRecruitment Fraud\nIt has come to our attention various individuals and/or organizations are contacting people falsely pretending to recruit on behalf of Oxy. Please be aware that these recruiting scams and communications do not originate nor are they associated with our recruitment process. All Oxy job postings and offers will require a completed application through our company website.\nOxy does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruiting process. We will never:\nAsk you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees\nUse recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or\nRequest personal information such as passport and bank account details at an early stage of our recruitment process. We recommend against responding to unsolicited business propositions or offers from people you don't know. Do not disclose your personal or financial details. 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