Job description

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

How to apply:
Smartsheet: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7e74371430e64ecbb8a2ed48f8827526
Website: NES web job link
    
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.

Preferred candidate

Years of experience

No experience required

Degree

Bachelor's degree / higher diploma