# Senior Data Scientist, Applied ML

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $10+billion invested in long-term assets. Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from more than 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2025 were $343bn. Our people are our business. Talent is precious to us and we create an environment in which individuals can reach their full potential, unhindered by hierarchy. Our team comprises more than 65+ nationalities and we are committed to developing and sustaining a diverse work force. Learn more about us here. This role is located in Houston, TX onsite 5x a week Vitol’s Applied ML team in Houston works directly with the trading desks to find commercial value through data and applied data science . Projects start with a trader’s or analyst’s question, not with a model. You will work alongside traders and analysts from the first conversation through to production and beyond. Y

- **Id**: 4282560
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vitol-com-senior-data-scientist-applied-ml>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Houston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T18:21:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T20:51:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5599
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- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Fossil Fuels, Oil & Gas

## Company

- **Id**: 691744
- **Name**: Vitol.com
- **Domain**: vitol.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vitol>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.4
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Sentiment Analysis** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T20:51:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 57
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:05:27Z

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