Grade HResponsible for supporting a wide range of exploration activities and the delivery of products ranging from quick-look assessments to quantitative interpretation solutions, assessing recommendations in concert with the wider team.Entity:
Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:
Subsurface Group

Job Description:

We are looking for a Numerical Scientist who is passionate about engaging with a broad set of disciplines to solve complex problems for bp's hydrocarbon and low carbon energy businesses.

Join us if you are innovative, creative and love problem solving. You will be working with top industry experts in the field of Seismic Technology, Reservoir Engineering, Subsurface Technology and Computational Sciences. Subsurface Center of Excellence (COE) is part of bp's Innovation and Engineering organization. COE's mission is to support business from bp's Production and Operations group. We do so by inventing new ideas, building new products, providing technical expertise, and supporting business units by helping them solve their near, mid, and long-term challenges. COE houses a range of skills such as: Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics & Reservoir Engineering. COE works very closely with the Center of High Performance Computing (CHPC), which is home to our on-prem computing facilities and a team of computational scientists.

As a numerical scientist within the Subsurface Technology Center of Excellence (COE) you will be expected to engage with a broad set of disciplines - Geophysics, Petrophysics, Reservoir Engineering, Geology, Statistics & High-Performance Computing. The Subsurface Technology COE is set up to solve cutting edge challenges. These involve solving big inverse problems, build modeling and simulation capabilities, developing stochastic algorithms, and estimating uncertainties & communicating complex information to our business units. We are looking for someone who not only excels at these numerical tasks but can build a vision for the future. Someone who can process complex information, be creative and has ideas on visualizing and communicating those. This position offers excellent opportunities to work with a lot of data ("BIG" data in both static and streaming senses), a lot of computers and challenging business problems in a myriad of subsurface subject areas.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Quickly getting up to speed with the existing technology & framework
• Finding opportunities that can have groundbreaking business impact
• Writing a lot of code & building technical solutions to bring your ideas to life
• Staying inquisitive and being creative
• Collaborating with scientists from different subject areas

Requirements:

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Scientific subject areas such as Physics, Mathematics, Computational Sciences, Statistics, Geophysics, Reservoir Engineering
• Demonstrated experience out of grad school
• Practical hands-on experience in developing code - Python, C, C++, CUDA
• Experience with inverse problems, optimization theory and Statistics
• Experience with ML/AI and data analytics a plus!

Why join us

• At bp, 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 fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
• There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement
Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:
Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Computing, Data Analysis, Data Management, High Performance Computing (HPC), Numerical Analysis, Numerical Simulations, Research and development, Statistical Machine Learning, Statistical Physics

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