Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We are working towards delivering light, heat and mobility to millions of people, every day. We are one of the very few companies equipped to solve some of the big complex challenges that matter for the future. We have a real contribution to make to the world's ambition of a low carbon future. Join us and be part of what we can accomplish together. You can participate in our new ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero.

Critical to achieving bp’s digital ambitions is the delivery of our high value data and analytics initiatives, and the enablement of the technologies and platforms that will support those objectives.  We are developing deep data capability to transform the access, supply, control and quality to our vast and ever-growing reserves of data.

We are looking for an outstanding Principal Machine Learning Engineer who will drive the development of our data modelling and data contextualisation capabilities. These use cases would drive significant operational efficiency, safety and environmental aims that are key to the transformation of bp.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Consistently advance the state of ML for your problem, including setting and executing against roadmaps for 6-month+ timeframes.

• Complement our data scientists by designing and implementing a reliable, secure and maintainable modelling framework that can be used to deploy models to production easily.

• Define projects for other engineers to possibly solve and achieve impact based on your direction.

• Own the full ML life cycle for a significant new ML product, including production quality.

• You are a strong advocate for ML excellence.

• Code deliverables in tandem with Data Scientists.

• Play a critical role in helping to set up directions and goals for the team.

• Build and ship high-quality code, provide thorough code reviews, testing, monitoring and proactive changes to improve stability.

• You are the one who implements the hardest part of the system or feature.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Ability to solve technical problems that few others can do

• Ability to lead/coordinate rollout and releases of major initiatives

• Experience with developing end-to-end machine learning pipelines that ensure consistency between development and production environments.

• Experience working with distributed storage systems

• Ability to design ML architectures for scale with site traffic and complexity of features for predictive algorithms.

• Care with regards to model and data versioning, resource allocation and scaling, and logging to build optimal systems.

• Experience with creating systems that monitor and react to faults in resources, data streams and model responses.

• Deep experience with MLOps tools for scalable, production-level deployment including past work​ with feature stores, model hosting and versioning, data versioning, prediction and drift monitoring, and automated remediation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure or AWS

• Experiences with python and other programming languages such as Java, Kotlin or Scala

• Experience with Spark or other Big Data frameworks

• Experience with Kubernetes for data and ML workloads

• Experience working with open-source machine learning libraries

• Significant commercial experience in a related role

• Commonly used ML Libraries experience: Xgboost, lgbm, sklearn

Why Join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement:

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation internationally

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Commercial Acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

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