# Forward Deployed Data Scientist - Oil & Gas, Houston at Fundamental

- Company: Fundamental
- What the company does: Built by Fundamental, a frontier AI research lab, NEXUS is the Large Tabular Model reimagining enterprise decision-making. Backed by Battery.
- Company website: https://fundamental.tech/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Houston, Texas, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fundamental/28718a22-d36e-45d9-9e29-3e70f38438b0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fundamental-forward-deployed-data-scientist-oil-and-gas-houston/

## About the role

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

## What they're looking for

- You hold a PhD / master in CS / Math / Stats or you have equivalent deep statistical literacy
- You have 7+ years as a technical individual contributor in Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Science, or ML Engineering
- You have strong experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders, ideally in complex enterprise or industrial environments
- You have experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
- You master the end-to-end pipeline, from framing, pre-processing, ml algorithm and validation strategies
- You have a deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization

Tags: Commercial