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Forward Deployed Data Scientist - Oil & Gas, Houston

Fundamental· Commercial
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Hybrid (Houston, Texas, United States)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Data Scientist to facilitate adoption of NEXUS, collaborate with customers, and translate field insights into the product roadmap, with initial focus on Houston-based Oil & Gas customers.

Responsibilities

  • You'll individually help deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact, moving from "science experiments" to definitive ROI
  • You’ll work on rigorous head-to-head benchmarking against client baselines (XGBoost, LightGBM), executing the work of data engineering, feature engineering, and validation
  • You’ll work in collaboration with our research and product teams to translate operational pain points and data anomalies into essential inputs for the Fundamental roadmap
  • You’ll be involved in technical strategy to identify the right business problems, prevent data leakage, and handle the "last mile" integration (VPC, on-prem, air-gapped)
  • Your collaboration with the Sales and Solution Architect teams will help align diverse stakeholders and explain predictions to business users

Qualifications

  • PhD / Master in CS / Math / Stats or equivalent deep statistical literacy
  • 3+ years as a technical individual contributor in Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Science, or ML Engineering
  • Strong experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders, ideally in complex enterprise or industrial environments
  • Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
  • Mastery of end-to-end pipeline (framing, pre-processing, ML algorithm and validation)
  • Deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization
  • Demonstrated experience optimizing models for a specific business problem
  • Strong communication skills translating architectural nuances into clear business value

Skills

Required:PhD / Master in CS / Math / StatsData Science / ML EngineeringCustomer-facing communicationContainerization (Docker) & APIsEnd-to-end ML pipelinePySpark / Pandas

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with salary and equity
  • Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K
  • Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
  • Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
  • A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action
Last updated Oct 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Fundamental

The Power to Predict

The Power to Predict. Our most powerful Large Tabular Model. Pre-trained on billions of real-world enterprise tables, our model knows which patterns drive which outcomes.

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