Principal Forward-Deployed Data Scientist, Oil & Gas

Fundamental; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity

Health/dental/vision + 401K

Parental leave

Relocation support

Diversity of thought culture

Job summary

Fundamental seeks a Principal Forward Deployed Data Scientist to drive adoption of NEXUS in Houston-based Oil & Gas clients. You will bridge customer needs with product roadmap, delivering production-grade ML solutions and ensuring secure deployment within client environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate field insights into scalable improvements, leveraging your deep ML expertise and strong communication to unlock value for large enterprises.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's in CS/Math/Stats or equivalent deep statistical literacy.
• 7+ years as a technical individual contributor in Data Science, ML or related field.
• Experience directly working with customers or business stakeholders in complex environments.
• Experience with containers (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask).
• Master end-to-end ML pipeline: framing, pre-processing, algorithms and validation strategies.
• Deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization.
• Proven experience optimizing models for a business problem.
• Strong communication skills to translate architectural nuances into business value.

Responsibilities

• Deploy production use cases with considerable business impact, moving from experiments to ROI.
• Benchmark against client baselines (XGBoost, LightGBM) and perform data engineering tasks.
• Collaborate with research and product teams to translate pain points into roadmap inputs.
• Define technical strategy to identify problems, prevent data leakage, and manage last-mile integration.
• Work with Sales and Solution Architect teams to align stakeholders and explain predictions to business users.

Skills

PhD/Master in CS/Math/Stats

7+ years data science experience

Customer-facing experience

Docker & APIs

ML pipeline

PySpark/Pandas

Model optimization

Strong communication

Education

PhD or Masters in CS/Math/Statistics

Tools

Docker

FastAPI/Flask

PyTorch

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

Fundamental seeks a Principal Forward Deployed Data Scientist to drive adoption of NEXUS in Houston-based Oil & Gas clients. You will bridge customer needs with product roadmap, delivering production-grade ML solutions and ensuring secure deployment within client environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate field insights into scalable improvements, leveraging your deep ML expertise and strong communication to unlock value for large enterprises.