An exciting opportunity with ICM Group for an Artificial Intelligence Specialist to relocate to Saudi Arabia for a direct hire, long term contract. This role is open to European candidates. Your primary role will be to work closely with business functions, stakeholders, functional teams to give consultations on AI/ML use case, identify potential value from data, formulate AI and data science ideas and conceptualize them. This role will play a pivotal role in helping our organization to make data-driven decisions and to solve complex problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers and domain experts, to drive data-driven improvements.
- Gather and preprocess data from various industrial sources, such as sensors, DCS systems, and manufacturing equipment’s.
- Analyse data to identify opportunities for process optimization, energy efficiency improvements, and cost reduction.
- Implement anomaly detection algorithms to identify abnormal patterns in industrial processes and equipment.
- Develop predictive maintenance models to identify equipment failures and minimize downtime.
- Bring innovative ideas to apply image, video, and audio analytics to reduce manual efforts like visual inspection/field monitoring of industrial plants.
- Create informative dashboards to communicate insights to operational teams and management.
- Deploy machine learning models into production systems for real-time monitoring and decision-making.
- Maintain documentation for data analysis processes, models, and findings.
- Ensure that data practices adhere to industry regulations and data privacy standards.
- Monitor and evaluate model performance and make necessary adjustments to maintain accuracy and reliability.
Minimum Requirements
- You must hold a Bachelors/ master’s degree in engineering, Data science from a premier institute.
- You must have at least 5 years of experience in building data analytics-based products in industrial context, preferably in petroleum refineries.
- You possess the ability to identify business problems that can be addressed through data analysis and develop data-driven solutions (Engineering/Operational problems, computer vision-based products)
- Exceptional analytical and Problem-solving skills, with the ability to derive insights and opportunities from data are required.
- Understanding of the Oil & gas downstream domain to apply data science effectively is essential.
- Experience in developing AI/ML based Digital twins of industrial process/equipment’s.
- Experience in applying Optimization algorithms in line with AI/ML Models.
- Expertise in Python for data manipulation, analysis, and modelling.
- Familiarity with popular libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-Learn etc.
- Proficiency in deep learning tools karas, TensorFlow, pytorch, cafee, etc.
- Proficiency in developing, evaluation and selecting the best ML model based on the problem under consideration with an Engineering sense.
- You must also be able to bring ideas from conceptualization to productionizing.
- Proficiency in visualization tools and packages; and in communicating data science topics to non-technical audience.
- Basic project management skills to plan, execute, and deliver data science projects on time and within scope is preferred.
