Numerical Scientist - Houston, United States - bp

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Houston, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Job summary

Entity:

Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:

Subsurface Group

We are looking for a Numerical Scientist who is passionate about engaging with a broad set of disciplines to solve complex problems for bp's hydrocarbon and low carbon energy businesses.

Join us if you are innovative, creative and love problem solving.

You will be working with top industry experts in the field of Seismic Technology, Reservoir Engineering, Subsurface Technology and Computational Sciences.

Subsurface Center of Excellence (COE) is part of bp's Innovation and Engineering organization. COE's mission is to support business from bp's Production and Operations group.

We do so by inventing new ideas, building new products, providing technical expertise, and supporting business units by helping them solve their near, mid, and long-term challenges.

COE houses a range of skills such as:
Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics & Reservoir Engineering.

COE works very closely with the Center of High Performance Computing (CHPC), which is home to our on-prem computing facilities and a team of computational scientists.

Key responsibilities will include:

Quickly getting up to speed with the existing technology & framework
Finding opportunities that can have groundbreaking business impact
Writing a lot of code & building technical solutions to bring your ideas to life
Staying inquisitive and being creative

Requirements:

Demonstrated experience out of grad school
Practical handson experience in developing code
Python, C, C++, CUDA
Experience with inverse problems, optimization theory and Statistics
Experience with ML/AI and data analytics a plus

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others
Travel Requirement

Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Computing, Data Analysis, Data Management, High Performance Computing (HPC), Numerical Analysis, Numerical Simulations, Research and development, Statistical Machine Learning, Statistical Physics

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