Lead Industrial AI & Optimization Engineer

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in more than 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward - making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet.

Within the Cordant product team, you will contribute to the design, development, validation, and deployment of digital solutions that combine machine learning, process engineering, control systems, and scalable software practices. This role requires a multidisciplinary skillset spanning data-driven modeling, industrial process understanding, product-quality software development, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-ready capabilities.

As the Lead Industrial AI & Optimization Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Developing machine learning and hybrid modeling solutions for industrial process applications, including neural networks, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks, transformer-based architectures, and time-series models
• Utilizing industrial process engineering, advanced process control, and real-time optimization domain knowledge to develop robust machine learning algorithms
• Evaluating model performance, uncertainty, robustness, maintainability, and scalability in industrial deployment environments
• Supporting integration of machine learning models with optimization workflows, advanced process control systems, industrial data historians, cloud platforms, and enterprise software architectures
• Designing, training, validating, and deploying models using Python and associated scientific, machine learning, and software development libraries.
• Helping define best practices for machine learning model lifecycle management, including data preparation, feature engineering, experiment tracking, model governance, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Collaborating with product managers, software engineers, process engineers, data scientists, UX teams, and customer-facing teams to deliver features aligned with product roadmaps and customer needs.

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree (in Chemical Engineering, Process Systems Engineering, Control Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline)
• Experience developing machine learning models for engineering, industrial, time-series, or process systems applications
• Knowledge of process modeling, dynamic simulation, advanced process control, model predictive control, real-time optimization, or process optimization methods.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience with common scientific and machine learning libraries
• Practical experience with neural network architectures, including feedforward neural networks, RNNs, LSTMs or GRUs, CNNs, transformer models, and sequence modeling approaches
• Ability to comfortably work across disciplines, including process engineering, data science, control systems, software engineering, cloud architecture, and customer-facing product teams
• Demonstrated strong analytical thinking, communication skills, technical documentation discipline, and ability to explain complex modeling concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Prior experience in energy, oil and gas, LNG, refining, petrochemicals, power generation, or industrial automation applications; this would be an added advantage

• Flexible working opportunities
• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Education assistance
• Generous parental leave
• Mental health resources
• Dependent care support
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

This position requires valid work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to sponsor work authorization for this role at any time.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here , and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Digital Technology Advisor - Product Management