Associate Data Scientist– SMP with Saudi Aramco

Job Title: Associate Data Scientist– SMP with Saudi Aramco

Employment/Contract Type: (Full-Time)

Industry/Nature of Business: (Oil & Gas)

Work Location: Dhahran

About Us:

NES mission centers on providing specialist technical & engineering talent for critical industries, driven by values like integrity, customer focus, teamwork, drive, and enterprise, while focusing on Oil & Gas, Renewables, Chemicals, Life Sciences, and Mining, supporting global energy transition through responsible, diverse workforce solutions. (SMP opportunities with Aramco)

Mission & Vision

Mission: To connect companies with skilled engineering & technical professionals, facilitating global projects, especially in the evolving energy and scientific sectors, delivering workforce solutions ethically and responsibly.

Vision: To be a global leader in these specialized talent markets, supporting clients in achieving their goals while fostering local communities.

Core Values

Integrity & Responsibility: Upholding high standards, ensuring compliance, and minimizing environmental impact.

Customer Focus: Delivering safe, efficient solutions and building strong client relationships.

Drive & Personal Impact: Improving standards and contributing to positive outcomes.

Teamwork: Collaborating globally and locally for success.

Enterprise: Acting as responsible business partners, innovating, and supporting local economies.

Industry Focus

Energy Transition: Supporting renewable energy, carbon neutral projects, and sustainable energy production.

Core Sectors: Oil & Gas, Power, Chemicals, Life Sciences, and Mining.

Specialization: Providing expertise for complex, large-scale projects in these technical fields

Job Summary

We are seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Associate Data Scientist SMP with Saudi Aramco

Job Requirements

• Cloud skills - GCP/OpenShift, Kubernetes (k8s), Docker containers/images
• AI skills – Model training, testing/evaluation, deployment
• ML/LLMOPs
• LLMs and GenAI core skills – how do LLMs work under the hood, inference mechanics of LLMs/GenAI
• Inference scaling, distributed computing, inference benchmarking, inference planning for meeting SLAs/SLOs
• GPUs and how to work with them, distributed workloads handling, autoscaling
• NVIDIA NIMs, Huggingface
• NVIDIA Superpods (HPC, slurm, k8s)
• Monitoring, dashboards for LLM/ML workloads and applications
• AI Application Architecture know-how, end to end flows
• DevOps (CI/CD, argoCD, git, Jenkins etc)
• Languages: Python, SQL

Preferred skills

Professionalism of communications and soft skills, good leadership in project management.

Educational Background

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Work Experience

Fresh graduate or experience 5 years

Work Schedule

Full Time – 40h schedule per week

Benefits Offered

• Competitive Basic Salary + Overbase
• Adequate Health Insurance.
• Annual Leave & Public Holidays
• Annual Flight Tickets for Expats

Application Window

Start Date: 8/3/2026

End Date: 8/6/2026