Senior Data Scientist — Industrial AI & Analytics Lead

Cognite - AI for Industry; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognite is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive data-driven solutions for Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, and Manufacturing. You will build production-grade models in Python, collaborate with data engineers and solution architects, and deliver insights that inform customer strategies.

Join a cross-functional team that values mentorship, innovation, and the practical deployment of analytics on Cognite’s industrial data platform, with strong emphasis on domain knowledge and impact.

Qualifications

• Master of Science in a quantitative field or related engineering.
• 5+ years of full-time data science experience, preferably in Energy, Oil & Gas, Maintenance or Manufacturing.
• Proficient experience with Python and SQL. Production experience is a plus.
• Experience with machine learning methods, statistics and/or optimisation.
• Experience with Git.
• Experience working with customers.
• Experience with managed cloud services such as GCP, Azure or AWS is a plus.
• Domain knowledge in Oil & Gas Asset Performance Management or production optimization is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy scalable data-driven solutions for Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Power & Utilities use cases using Cognite's core capabilities.
• Lead discovery workshops with stakeholders to map business problems to data and models.
• Perform data cleansing and exploratory data analysis.
• Implement physical models / machine learning models in Python and deploy to model hosting environment.
• Apply GenAI techniques to enhance decision-making in customer use cases.
• Build dashboards in Grafana, Power BI, Plotly or Dash for visualizing solutions.
• Collaborate with data engineers, project managers and solution architects on project deliveries.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine learning

Statistics

Optimization

Git

Cloud services (GCP/Azure/AWS)

Education

Master of Science in a quantitative field or related engineering

Tools

Grafana

Power BI

Plotly

Dash

Job description

Cognite is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive data-driven solutions for Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, and Manufacturing. You will build production-grade models in Python, collaborate with data engineers and solution architects, and deliver insights that inform customer strategies.

Join a cross-functional team that values mentorship, innovation, and the practical deployment of analytics on Cognite’s industrial data platform, with strong emphasis on domain knowledge and impact.