Lead / Principal AI Consultant - Energy & Oil & Gas

EPAM is seeking a Houston-based AI leader to shape and deliver enterprise AI solutions for Energy and Oil & Gas clients. This role combines client advisory, AI/ML technical depth and end-to-end product delivery leadership. You will lead workshops, define AI strategy and work with engineering teams to bring high-value solutions from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Energy clients and EPAM teams to define AI/ML, GenAI and agentic AI strategies, roadmaps and business cases

• Lead client workshops, discovery sessions and solution-design engagements with business and technical stakeholders

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products, from ideation and requirements through production deployment, adoption and growth

• Lead multidisciplinary teams across data science, engineering, cloud, product and Energy domain SMEs

• Develop proposals, solution architectures and go-to-market offerings for EPAM’s Energy AI practice

• Build team capability through mentoring, hiring and advancing AI delivery standards, reusable assets and best practices

Requirements

• 7+ years of Data Science, ML Engineering or AI delivery experience, including 5+ years in leadership or client-facing delivery roles

• Strong Oil & Gas or Energy domain expertise in at least one area: Upstream, Midstream or Downstream

• Experience leading enterprise AI/ML programs and working directly with client executives, operational leaders and technical teams

• Hands-on expertise in areas such as time-series analytics, predictive maintenance, computer vision, NLP/LLMs, recommender systems or agentic AI

• Experience delivering production AI solutions using MLOps/LLMOps and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP

• Working knowledge of Python, modern AI product SDLC practices and technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, LangChain or Semantic Kernel

Nice to have

• Experience in renewables, Data Center Energy Management or energy-transition initiatives

• Background in Oilfield Services, Energy Tech or Houston-based Energy consulting practices

• Experience with Energy regulatory, safety and environmental compliance requirements

• Cloud certifications, AI/ML publications, conference presentations or open-source contributions

We offer/Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)

• Health Savings Account

• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)

• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

• Paid Time Off

• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection

• Accident Insurance

• Employee Discounts

• Pet Insurance

• Employee Stock Purchase Program