Senior Engineer - Data Analytics

Job description / Role

Role Summary:

About Us:

Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE:BHGE) is the world's first and only fullstream provider of integrated oilfield products, services and digital solutions. Drawing on a storied heritage of invention, BHGE harnesses the passion and experience of its people to enhance productivity across the oil and gas value chain.

BHGE helps its customers acquire, transport and refine hydrocarbons more efficiently, productively and safely, with a smaller environmental footprint and at lower cost per barrel. Backed by the digital industrial strength of GE, the company deploys minds, machines and the cloud to break down silos and reduce waste and risk, applying breakthroughs from other industries to advance its own.

With operations in over 120 countries, the company's global scale, local know-how and commitment to service infuse over a century of experience with the spirit of a startup - inventing smarter ways to bring energy to the world.

Role Summary:

Baker Hughes, a GE company offers an experienced opportunity as Senior Engineer - Data Analytics to join the team in Dammam, KSA.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Work within the Modeling and Data Analytics group in DTC ( Dhahran Technology Center) with customers, engineers, and other data scientists in development, deployment, and application of applied analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics within well-defined projects to address customer needs and opportunities
- Work alongside software developers and software engineers to translate algorithms into commercially viable products and services
- Work on data quality assessment, data cleansing and data analytics
- Perform exploratory and targeted data analyses using descriptive statistics and other methods
- Develop and apply Deep Learning and different technologies, including ANN etc., for analytics and natural language processing applications
- Apply classification techniques via supervised/unsupervised learning, automated feature generation, and image labeling etc.
- Deploy developed solutions into oilfield systems and evaluate performance of deep learning models
- Generate reports, annotated code, and other projects artifacts to document, archive, and communicate the work and outcomes
- Support analytics framework development, working closely with analytics researchers, data scientists, mechanical, electrical, petroleum and chemical engineers.
- Provide inputs on best practices, industry trends, and future potential for industrial analytics.
- Influence from a technical standpoint across the function and business.
- Lead research work independently and in cross-functional teams
- Develop and execute short-term & long-term research projects
- Collaborate with world-class talent in many disciplines, each touched by the need of enabling BHGE products and services to unlock new customer value
- Research and develop tools, frameworks and processes to improve analytical methods, performance, scale and sophistication of algorithms, simulations and systems application
- Liaise with external entities
- Demonstrate strong leadership, organizational, planning, and project management skills.

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Masters' degree in STEM majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
- Research work experience of 4 years or more / 5 additional years of experience in Product Analytics.
- Experience in managing local and remote resources in a matrix environment
- Demonstrated proficiency in coding in one or more languages (e.g. Python, Matlab, C, C++, R, or Java etc.)
- Demonstrated skills in applying supervised/unsupervised machine learning/deep learning techniques in algorithm development (e.g. regression, classification, clustering, and neural networks etc.)
- Experience incorporating engineering analytics or advanced data-driven analytics into software solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact professionally with diverse levels of the organization, including executives, managers, vendors and subject matter experts
- Solid facilitation and presentation skills to lead design sessions with business and technical audiences

Desired Characteristics:

- Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools
- Detail oriented and demonstrated ability to develop technical requirements based upon proactive analysis of customer needs
- Demonstrated awareness of feature extraction and real-time analytics methods
- Strong technical knowledge and acumen on multiple technology stacks and ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Ability to manage and work on multiple projects concurrently
- Ability to break down a problem and efficiently work toward implementation of solutions with minimal guidance

Locations:

Dammam, KSA

Baker Hughes, a GE company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.