Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Senior AI - Computer Vision Engineer

Occidental Petroleum Corporation • $120K — $160K *
Houston, TX 77084In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science or related technical field preferred, or equivalent industry experience in computer vision.
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in computer vision or applied deep learning.
  • Excellent Python skills, including writing clean, efficient, production-ready code.
  • Strong experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, CNN-based architectures, transformers, and Vision-Language Models.
  • Ultralytics YOLO experience required, particularly with training on real-world datasets.
  • Practical familiarity with Hugging Face and Roboflow for model management and experimentation.
  • Experience in GPU-accelerated environments and running ML workloads on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Design and select computer vision model architectures for classification, detection, segmentation, and tracking.
  • Build, train, fine-tune, and optimize models using Ultralytics YOLO for object detection and segmentation.
  • Lead R&D efforts to prototype and adopt state-of-the-art computer vision models and techniques.
  • Stay current with advances in computer vision research and translate innovations into applicable solutions.
  • Leverage Hugging Face for pretrained model assets and rapid experimentation.
  • Manage and improve image and video labeling workflows with annotation tools like Roboflow.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work within a cutting-edge AI Center of Excellence.
  • Engagement in high-impact research and development initiatives.
  • Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts in AI and engineering.
  • Access to advanced computational resources and AWS infrastructure for ML.
Full Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and innovative Senior AI - Computer Vision Engineer to join the AI Center of Excellence (ACE) group based in Houston, TX. This individual contributor role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying production-grade computer vision solutions across Oxy, supporting a wide range of industrial, operational, and subsurface use cases.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design and select appropriate computer vision model architectures for classification, detection, segmentation, and object tracking
  • Work with classification architectures such as ResNet, VGG, EfficientNet, and MobileNet, and segmentation architectures such as U-Net
  • Build, train, fine-tune, and optimize models using Ultralytics YOLO for object detection and segmentation (required)
  • Develop deep learning models using PyTorch and TensorFlow
  • Lead research and development (R&D) efforts to evaluate, prototype, and adopt state-of-the-art (SOTA) computer vision models and techniques where they provide business or operational value
  • Stay current with advances in computer vision research, including new architectures, training methods, and foundation models, and translate relevant innovations into practical solutions
  • Leverage Hugging Face for pretrained backbones, model assets, and rapid experimentation
  • Apply Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to multimodal computer vision workflows (e.g., OCR, image-to-text, prompt-driven visual understanding)
  • Design, manage, and continuously improve image and video labeling workflows, using Roboflow or similar annotation tools
  • Deliver computer vision models for surface and downhole image analysis, including lithology, facies, and textural interpretation
  • Optimize computationally heavy training and inference workloads, including GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and throughput/latency tradeoffs
  • Work with GPU-accelerated environments (CUDA-enabled frameworks) and AWS-based ML infrastructure, including Amazon SageMaker when appropriate
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (AI platform, software engineering, domain experts) and mentor junior engineers
  • Communicate technical findings, experimental results, and recommendations clearly through presentations, demos, and written documentation


QUALIFICATIONS
  • PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field preferred, or equivalent industry experience building production computer vision systems
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in computer vision or applied deep learning
  • Excellent Python skills (required), including writing clean, efficient, production-ready code
  • Strong experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, CNN-based architectures, transformers, and Vision-Language Models
  • Ultralytics YOLO experience required, including training and tuning on real-world datasets
  • Practical familiarity with Hugging Face and Roboflow
  • Experience working with GPU-accelerated workloads and CUDA-enabled deep learning frameworks
  • Experience developing or running ML workloads on AWS, including Amazon SageMaker and GPU instances
  • Strong experience working in Linux environments
  • Excellent teamwork, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated contributions to computer vision research, including peer-reviewed publications, conference papers, or equivalent applied research output


Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.

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Learn more about Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Size
11,678 employees
Market Cap
$56.5 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
-$14.8 billion
Founded
1920
5 Year Trend
+20.7%
Revenue
$17.9 billion
NASDAQ
OXY
* Ladders Estimates

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