AI Researcher 2

The Role

Passionate about cutting- edge AI, and break-through digital innovation? If you are passionate about applied R&D, resourceful to drive innovation and apply state-of-the-art AI technology in

Shell, this job is for you. As an innovation organization, we maintain a portfolio of digital projects driven by applied research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals. As an AI Researcher, you will setup large-scale experiments and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating proof of concepts and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our AI Researchers work on real-world problems that span the breadth of various lines of business. As an Artificial Researcher, you'll also actively contribute to the wider Shell.ai community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with strategic partners, universities, and technical institutes all over the world.

Where you fit in -

As we transition to cleaner forms of energy, the challenge facing the energy industry in the coming decades is considerable. AI is playing a crucial role in navigating through the uncertainties of the energy future. In this role, you will contribute to the AI innovation within the company.

If you want to learn more about Shell.ai, check out this link –

https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/digitalisation/digital-technologies/shell-ai.html

This position can be based in either Houston or Boston Shell offices.

What’s the role -

You will be responsible for innovation, concept development and productizing to AI/deep learning applications with direct business impact. More specifically, your role will include:

• Contribute to and lead deep learning and AI projects

• Lead and co-develop technical proposals, research activities including design sprints, literature reviews, field research, and prototype building.

• Use innovative research to influence relevant products and partner teams across Shell, and to have company and societal impact

• Work on innovative ideas that can bring the right change in the energy industry

• Implement AI algorithms, appraise new technology, and deliver on milestones

• Contribute to the portfolio of projects in your team; engage with all internal and external stakeholders

• Connect with vendors, universities, and other external entities to bring in new ideas and solutions

• Help Shell businesses and technology platforms to shape up their AI strategy and roadmap

Special Challenges:

• Ability to collaborate with multiple engineering, product, and non-technical teams in a cross-functional environment

• Building constructive and trusting relationships with mostly remote business stakeholders

• Dealing with challenges in data acquisition from other parts of the business

Skills and Requirements

What we need from you -

When it comes to developing one of Shell’s forward-looking innovation programs, your strategic thinking, and strategic partnership development capability will make all the difference. You should have the capability to develop working relationships where you will connect the internal and external innovators, take up their innovations, and help to shape it into a robust product that is ready to generate commercial value.

Furthermore, you should have:

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

• Masters or PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, theoretical science, statistics, or operational research with experience in large-scale parameterization AI and HPC computing.

• For this role we prefer a deep learning specialist with substantial experience working on images, timeseries, video material, optimization

• A problem-solving mindset and an enthusiasm for learning new skills

• Must have strong technical skills to develop advanced analytics algorithms/models.

• Skilled in data design integrity

• Skilled in value exploitation

• Awareness of lifecycle and data management is desirable

• Strong passion for experimentation and extensive experience in solving hard AI problems

• Experience in DL, DRL, AI applications delivery in a corporate environment

• Proven examples of implementing experimental pipelines and prototyping AI applications

• Demonstrated people management and stakeholder engagement skills

• Solid professional software engineering skills

• You’re an innovator

• You build and advocate quality products

• You have a track record of value delivery

• Regularly following the scientific journals and regularly publishing in scientific journals

Job Experience Requirements:

Candidates for the position should have five (5) years’ work experience in applying latest AI methods to applied use cases using real data. This requires demonstration knowledge of:

• Strong TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras experience

• Knowledge of large-scale adversarial training for representation learning

• A mathematical background covering some subset of linear algebra, probability, multivariate calculus, geometry, and numerical methods will be invaluable

• Hands-on code development (Python, Java, MATLAB, R,)

• Experience using Git to manage models, and source code

• Experience in Cloud stacks and architecture, such as Azure, AWS, etc. Comfort with some flavor of Unix shell environment (e.g., bash

Company description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. We have expertise in among other exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of oil products, chemicals, electric power, renewables and energy solutions.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

Disclaimer

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