Oil & Gas Maintenance & Reliability AI Domain Specialist

Houston Dose; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Health and Dependent Care Reimb. Arr./

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and Paid Time Off

Job summary

Houston Dose is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge field maintenance and reliability challenges with data, engineering, and AI solutions. You will guide multidisciplinary teams from discovery to adoption, mapping end-to-end maintenance workflows and validating approaches with clients to reduce downtime and costs.

You will collaborate with product, data, AI, and software teams to prototype deployable solutions in client environments and support readiness, rollout, and end-user

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in maintenance, reliability, asset integrity, or inspection in Oil & Gas.
• Ability to assess physics-based, statistical, and ML model outputs.
• Credible technical conversation with client SMEs and diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as domain authority for maintenance, reliability, and inspection across oil and gas operations.
• Map end-to-end workflows from anomaly detection to corrective actions.
• Engage client SMEs and leaders to clarify priorities and validate solutions.
• Plan and facilitate discovery, design, and validation workshops.
• Translate domain needs into use cases, data needs, and solution designs for data/engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities for AI, analytics, and automation to accelerate root cause analysis and maintenance actions.
• Evaluate physics-based and data-driven model outputs for relevance and safety.
• Collaborate with product, data, AI, and software teams to prototype and deploy solutions in client environments.
• Support data readiness, validation, rollout, training, and adoption with end users.
• Define success metrics and track outcomes like downtime reduction and reliability improvements.
• Troubleshoot issues during pilots and deployments, coordinating cross-team resolutions.
• Document decisions, patterns, and assets; contribute to proposals and demonstrations.

Skills

RCA knowledge

FMEA

RCM

Condition monitoring

Risk-based inspection

Sensor data

AI capabilities

Workshop facilitation

Executive communication

Problem solving

Tools

SAP PM

IBM Maximo

SQL

Job description

Houston Dose is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge field maintenance and reliability challenges with data, engineering, and AI solutions. You will guide multidisciplinary teams from discovery to adoption, mapping end-to-end maintenance workflows and validating approaches with clients to reduce downtime and costs.

You will collaborate with product, data, AI, and software teams to prototype deployable solutions in client environments and support readiness, rollout, and end-user