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Lead Data Scientist

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Overview

PakEnergy is hiring a Lead Data Scientist to establish and lead data science and machine learning for its Innovation Lab, reporting to the Chief Product Officer. The role is hands-on, covering problem framing, modelling, experiments, customer pilots and production handoff for energy industry data. The posting states an in-office position in Frisco, Texas, or Calgary, Alberta, and full-time employment.

Responsibilities:

  • Define customer problems and measurable outcomes with product experts
  • Build forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization and predictive models
  • Design experiments, offline evaluations and pilot success measures
  • Support AI evaluation and production handoff with engineering

Requirements summary:

  • At least eight years of applied machine learning or data science experience
  • Expert Python and SQL skills
  • Statistical knowledge and model evaluation skills
  • Working knowledge of LLM and generative AI evaluation
  • Quantitative degree or equivalent practical experience

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Job details

SeniorityLead
DepartmentData & analytics
Experience8+ years
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
EducationBachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred)
Fields of studyQuantitative field
Perks mentionedGenerous paid time off, Retirement plan, Visa sponsorship

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Job description
PakEnergy is accelerating its innovation. Join the team building practical AI and data science solutions for the energy industry.

About The Company

More than 2,300 oil and gas companies rely on PakEnergy’s software for land management, production, accounting and transportation. PakEnergy is expanding its use of AI across these platforms through the PakEnergy Innovation Lab. The Lab brings together product experts, applied AI engineers and solution engineers to identify meaningful customer challenges, develop working prototypes using operational data, and bring validated solutions into production. Recent innovations include AI-powered lease provision analysis, PakCAPTURE document processing for transportation, and OnPing Plunger well optimization.

About The Role

PakEnergy is seeking a hands-on Lead Data Scientist to establish and lead data science and machine learning for the Innovation Lab. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will shape the Lab’s data science direction while building models and writing code yourself. You will partner with experts across Land, Production, Accounting and Transportation to frame customer problems, assess opportunities and determine whether proposed solutions are supported by evidence. This role offers ownership from initial exploration through customer pilots, production handoff and ongoing model performance. You will also work closely with the Lead Applied AI Engineer, whose focus includes generative AI, LLMs and agentic systems. There are no direct reports initially, but the role can help shape and lead a future data science team as the Lab grows.

Qualifications

You bring at least eight years of applied machine learning or data science experience and a record of building and shipping multiple models used by customers. You have set technical direction, selected tools and standards, and mentored or coached data scientists or engineers. You bring strong expertise in at least one area such as time-series forecasting, anomaly detection or optimization, supported by sound statistical knowledge, experimental design and model evaluation skills. Expert Python and SQL skills are required, as is a willingness to remain hands-on.

You also have working knowledge of LLM and generative AI systems, including evaluation approaches such as test-set design, metrics, human labeling and error analysis. You can work effectively with product, engineering, executives and domain experts, translate ambiguous challenges into measurable work, and communicate candidly when an approach is unlikely to succeed. Experience with fast-moving software development and responsible production delivery is important. Energy, oil and gas, SCADA/IIoT, geospatial data, document extraction, Databricks, Spark, Azure, AWS, MLflow, early-stage team building or customer-focused innovation work are beneficial, but not required. A quantitative degree or equivalent practical experience is expected; an advanced degree is welcome.

This is an in-office position in Frisco, Texas, or Calgary, Alberta. The US position is classified as exempt. Canadian employment classification will follow Alberta employment standards.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product experts to define customer problems, establish measurable outcomes and prioritize promising opportunities. Explore and model production, SCADA/IIoT, accounting, transportation, geospatial and other operational data. Build forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization and predictive models, taking work from analysis to prototype. Design experiments, offline evaluations and pilot success measures, and make evidence-based recommendations about whether solutions should proceed.

Partner with the Lead Applied AI Engineer by supplying relevant data, contributing statistical and machine learning models, and helping design rigorous evaluations for AI systems. Work with solution engineers on customer pilots and define data, monitoring and MLOps requirements for production handoff. Collaborate with engineering after deployment to monitor performance, detect drift and improve models. Establish standards for data quality, reproducibility, experimentation and responsible machine learning; document practices, strengthen data fluency across the Lab, mentor teammates and contribute to future hiring plans.

Benefits

PakEnergy offers a casual business work environment, generous paid time off, employer-sponsored health benefits and a retirement savings plan, including a 401(k) in the United States. The role provides direct access to leadership, deep collaboration with industry experts and the opportunity to see your work reach customers.

Equal Opportunity

PakEnergy is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are committed to an inclusive hiring process. If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply.

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