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AI Data Engineer

Jobs via Dice
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 2/2/2026 CLOSED ON 2/26/2026

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Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, CAYS Inc, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today!

Experience Bands: Mid-Level: 4-7 years, Senior/Principal: 8-12 years (technical lead, architecture)

Role Duty : As an AI Engineer, you will architect, build, deploy, and scale AI systems-covering LLM, CV, and time-series inference-across cloud and edge for drilling, production, subsurface, and HSE use cases. You'll operationalize data science models, enable real-time inference, integrate with enterprise platforms, and enforce security, governance, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities: AI Systems Engineering: Low-latency inference services, stream processing (Kafka/Spark Structured Streaming), batch pipelines, and feature stores.

LLM/GenAI Engineering: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) over technical manuals, procedures, incident reports, and field notes. On-prem/virtual network safeguarded deployments; prompt engineering, grounding, evaluation harnesses. Halliburton context: knowledge assistants for operations, HSE checklists, troubleshooting flows.

Computer Vision: Defect detection, PPE compliance, corrosion/crack detection, facility inspections with edge-friendly models.

MLOps/Model Serving: CI/CD for ML, IaC, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), model registries, canary/blue-green, observability (latency, throughput, model health).

Data Engineering for AI: ETL/ELT, orchestrations (Airflow/Azure Data Factory), lakehouse integration, OSDU alignment.

Security & Compliance: RBAC, VNET integration, key management, PII/HSE-sensitive data handling.

Collaboration: Partner with Data Scientists, SMEs, and product teams to land robust AI services.

Qualification:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, or commensurate qualification from an accredited university.

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