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Ref: KP658-284
Job description / Role
Aramco energizes the world economy.
Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.
With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.
Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.
We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.
Overview
We are seeking a Geophysical HPC developer to join Geophysical Applications Division of Exploration Applications Services Department. The Geophysical Applications Division (GAD) core responsibilities include support of a large user base in Exploration with wide range of geoscience applications, technologies and solutions spanning the whole upstream spectrum from Exploration to Development. As Oil and Gas exploration in Saudi Arabia has moved to higher levels of complexity and more challenging frontiers, GAD is committed as ever to acquire and develop state of the art technologies and to hire the best-in-class geoscientists to meet the growing energy demand and achieving net zero emissions by 2060 as strategized by the 2030 vision of Saudi Arabia.
As a geoscientist working in GAD, you will be involved in developing geophysical applications/workflows that integrates multidisciplinary upstream data utilizing mainstream G&G software platforms, such as Emerson's Paradigm and Schlumberger's Omega among multiple other specialized software. You will work closely with exploration and development geophysicists leveraging an in-depth experience in industry-leading Geophysical software to conduct advanced seismic processing, inversion and imaging including rock-physics analysis. Moreover, you will develop and optimize In-house code and environment and work on High Performance Computing Systems monitoring and trouble shooting.
Key Responsibilities
You will be required to perform the following:
Develop, optimize, maintain and support geophysical applications
Monitor and trouble shoot High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems to optimize resource utilization and improve project turnaround time.
Advise on internal department work procedures to promote increased productivity and efficiencies
Recommend and conduct studies on the extension of HPC computing technology into profitable areas of Geophysical Processing and Interpretation technical activities. In conjunction with Exploration customer representatives, determines opportunities for computer assistance
Prepare proposals for higher management on Geophysical Processing and HPC systems and projects
Endorsement on technical HPC applications where initial study has determined a high degree of operational feasibility is involved
Initiate and conduct continuous research into advanced systems concepts and latest developments in techniques and applications pertaining to Geophysical Processing and HPC systems
Maintain close liaison with U.S. Company representatives on availability of HPC programming systems which they have developed that may be of interest to Saudi ARAMCO
Participate in activities of technical societies and keeps abreast of advancements in Geophysical data processing and data display techniques applicable to the area of organizational responsibility
Apply best practices to achieve collaborative disciplined and well-governed work environment
Adopt and apply IR.4, AI, and DL techniques to automate iterative and laborious tasks and workflows wherever possible
Develop and deliver customized HPC geoscience training, in specialized areas rock physics, quantitative and pre-stack seismic imaging, inversion and advanced seismic attributes
Requirements
As a successful candidate, you
Will hold a Bachelor's degree in Geosciences, HPC, or related field. An MSc or PhD degree in geosciences is also desirable
Have extensive recent industry experience working on geoscience projects, studies and operations
Have an intensive knowledge in handling, customizing and automating operational workflows of a wide range of geological and geophysical disciplines such as exploration seismic processing, inversion and imaging including rock-physics and other geoscience-related disciplines. Specialization in few sub disciplines is advantageous
Have Mastery level knowledge and experience in GPU geophysical development including porting compute intensive geophysical algorithms (i.e. depth migration) onto GPU architecture. As well as, experience with seismic processing applications and High Performance Computing. In addition, Programming skills ( C/C++, Fortran & Python), GPU acceleration and Unix/Linux background
Have knowledge to deal with 2D/ and 3D seismic data, and conducting velocity models, seismic attributes, inversion, spectral decomposition, AVO, AVA, and well familiar with quantitative and pre-stack seismic imaging.
Are fully familiar with geoscience data management for structured and unstructured data and various industry standard formats including evolving new trends pertaining to cloud computing such as OSDU
Are familiar with latest and cutting edge geoscience industry trends including IR4.0 use cases and applications. You should have attended and preferably got certified in data science, machine/ deep learning with hands-on experience in commanding and building solutions revolving around it. Expertise in utilizing geoscience software development kits and APIs is highly preferable
Working environment
Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.
At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.
We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.
About the Company
Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.
Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.