Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Vitol is an energy and commodities company with revenues of $400 billion in 2023; its primary business is the trading and distribution of energy products globally – it trades over seven million barrels per day of crude oil and products and, at any time, has 250 ships transporting its cargoes. Vitol’s clients include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves clients from some 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets globally including 16mm3 of storage, 480kbpd of refining capacity, and 7,000 service stations. To date, we have committed over $2.5 billion of capital to renewable projects, and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world. Learn more about us here . This Role is located in Houston, TX - In office 5x a week As our portfolio of work continues to grow, we are looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join our data science and machine learning team. The individual will work closely with the data and machine learning specialists, software engineers and commercial teams to deliver machine learning models and applications. We work across the trading business, operations, and other support functions; so the individual will need to be comfortable working with a variety of stakeholders and technologies. The Machine Learning Engineer at Vitol has visibility and impact across the full project workflow: from working with business stakeholders to help define the project, to data collation and processing, exploratory analysis, model selection and tuning, and implementation of production models. The successful candidate will join a team of experienced, collaborative practitioners, who are (pragmatically) solving some of the most challenging and impactful problems the energy industry is facing; as well as pushing the boundaries around the ‘art of the possible’. Core Responsibilities include: Design, develop, and deploy end-to-e