What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer I, Digital Products position at Phillips 66?
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The Senior Engineer I, Digital Products will combine engineering and physics-based models, data/ML, and modern software practices to build asset-integrated decision systems that improve safety, reliability, and profitability. You’ll work from problem scoping through deployment, using AI coding assistants to increase speed and impact.
You will use domain knowledge and advanced statistical and machine learning methods to solve enterprise-wide science and engineering problems located at the Phillips 66 Energy Research and Innovation (ERI) Center in Bartlesville, OK. The ERI team delivers critical support and solutions that enable strong operating excellence and growth opportunities for Phillips 66 worldwide.
What You’ll Do
This position has a base salary range of $136,800 – $167,200.
At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.
Total Rewards
Benefits
At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being — physical, emotional, social, and financial — is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results — personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:
Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue excellence.
Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com.
To be considered
In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 04/29/2026.
Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer
The Senior Engineer I, Digital Products will combine engineering and physics-based models, data/ML, and modern software practices to build asset-integrated decision systems that improve safety, reliability, and profitability. You’ll work from problem scoping through deployment, using AI coding assistants to increase speed and impact.
You will use domain knowledge and advanced statistical and machine learning methods to solve enterprise-wide science and engineering problems located at the Phillips 66 Energy Research and Innovation (ERI) Center in Bartlesville, OK. The ERI team delivers critical support and solutions that enable strong operating excellence and growth opportunities for Phillips 66 worldwide.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain domain model engines (e.g., kinetic, thermodynamic, reliability, optimization, or applied ML) and operationalize them in scalable workflows (APIs, jobs, pipelines).
- Integrate time-series and contextual plant data (lab, historian, planning, maintenance) into reliable asset state representations and model inputs.
- Implement decision-support tools (scenario analysis, risk/range framing, prioritization) that connect model outputs to operational and capital decisions.
- Design and build asset‑integrated systems that apply engineering, physics-based, and ML models to industrial data in support of clear business objectives.
- Partner with business, engineering, operations, and IT to scope problems, define success metrics, deploy solutions, and iterate based on user feedback.
- Harness AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate coding, refactoring, documentation, and data exploration, while keeping humans in the loop for validation and governance.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- PhD in Chemical Engineering (or another closely related field) with 3 years of work experience OR Master’s of Science in Chemical Engineering (or another closely related field) with 5 years of work experience
- Intermediate or greater proficiency in programming using statistical and engineering languages (e.g., Python, R, Julia) with experience building production-grade data/model pipelines
- Experience with engineering or scientific modeling (e.g., kinetics, thermodynamics, reliability, optimization, or applied ML)
- Working knowledge of data engineering concepts (time-series data, ETL/ELT, data quality, and system integration with lab/historian/enterprise systems)
- Ability to translate domain models into scalable, maintainable software systems (APIs, services, or applications) with testing and version control
- Experience delivering asset-integrated digital products used in operations or planning, ideally in energy, chemicals, or similar industries
- Familiarity with git-based workflows, automated testing, CI/CD, and MLOps/LLMOps practices, including containerization (e.g., Docker)
- Experience using AI coding assistants or LLM-based tools professionally, with an understanding of appropriate guardrails
- Exposure to building or contributing to simple user interfaces (dashboards, notebooks, or web apps) that surface models and decision tools to end users
This position has a base salary range of $136,800 – $167,200.
At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.
Total Rewards
Benefits
At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being — physical, emotional, social, and financial — is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results — personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:
- Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
- 8% 401k company match
- Cash Balance Account pension
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
- Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services
Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue excellence.
Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com.
To be considered
In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 04/29/2026.
Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Salary : $136,800 - $167,200