Data Scientist

Cognite
Mexico City +5 more
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level data scientists with industry experience who enjoy cross-functional collaboration and thrive in solving complex industrial problems.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level data scientists with 1-3 years of industry experience in oil and gas or manufacturing
    — “1-3 years of relevant work experience as a data scientist (preferably within related industry)”
  • Candidates who are comfortable working in cross-functional teams and delivering solutions to external clients
    — “Enjoy working in cross-functional teams”
  • Professionals with strong analytical and modeling skills, particularly in physics or machine learning
    — “Implement physical models / machine learning models in Python and deploy to our model hosting environment”

Things to consider

  • Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish is mandatory, not optional
    — “Fully bilingual both verbal and written in English and Spanish is required”
  • New hires are expected to start in Q1 2027, which may require planning for delayed onboarding
    — “We are proactively building out our talent pool in Mexico with the intention to have new hires start in Q1 2027”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with predictive maintenance or production optimization in oil and gas or manufacturing
    — “2+ years industry experience (or an academic background) in the oil and gas or manufacturing domain building analytical solutions (data-driven and/or simulations) for production optimization and predictive maintenance”
  • Showcase skills in deploying models and using AI tools like Claude Code or Cursor
    — “Proficient experience with Python, SQL and AI IDEs such as Claude Code, Cursor. Experience with efficient usage of AI tools is a plus”
  • Emphasize your ability to work directly with customers and translate their needs into technical solutions
    — “Experience working customer faced, with external customers”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • build solutions based on physics models and/or using machine learning techniques
  • build dashboards for visualizing the solutions
  • scale and deploy solutions in production
Typical background
2+ years industry experience in the oil and gas or manufacturing domainBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics

Skills & requirements

Required

Data ModelingMachine LearningData VisualizationPythonSQLData Analysis

Preferred

SpanishOil And Gas Industry KnowledgeManufacturing Industry Knowledge

Stack & domain

PythonData ScienceAIMachine LearningData EngineeringSolution ArchitectureProject ManagementPhysics ModelsData VisualizationCognite ProductsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkAdaptabilityCuriosityResilienceOil And GasRenewablesPower And UtilitiesManufacturing

About the role

Original posting from Cognite via Greenhouse

What Cognite is: Relentless to achieve

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.

We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not backwards - you’ll feel right at home here. 

Our Moonshot is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

At Cognite, the Global Value Delivery team leads software implementation, deployment & adoption for clients, and helps them accelerate their digital transformation efforts with Cognite’s product suite. We consist of people with diverse and high-performance backgrounds, ranging from Management Consulting, to Industry and Software development. We seek to continuously improve how we work with our clients, how we work together as a team, and how we develop as individuals.

Do you see how data can be used, modeled and visualized in new ways to improve decisions in industrial engineering, but you experience that the tools and data availability is insufficient to create impact? If you want to change that, and take part in forming what the future of the industry will look like you should join our Cognite and become a part of the team responsible for delivering Cognite’s cutting edge industry solutions to our customers!

The data science team at Cognite is responsible for understanding our customers’ business goals and challenges, scoping and building solutions to address these, and growing Cognite’s impact within our customers’ digital transformation efforts. As a Data Scientist in the team, you will work in cross-functional pods of other data scientists, data engineers, solution architects and project managers to configure, deploy, and operationalize digital solutions across the oil and gas, renewables/sustainability, power & utilities, and manufacturing industries. You will work with the customer to understand their desired outcome, conduct discovery workshops, and advise on possible approaches and potential pitfalls. You will build solutions based on physics models and/or using machine learning techniques, build dashboards for visualizing the solutions, and scale and deploy solutions in production using Cognite’s core capabilities. The position will give you a unique opportunity to work with and learn from people with various backgrounds in business, software, and industry.

We are proactively building out our talent pool in Mexico with the intention to have new hires start in Q1 2027

Who You Are

Fully bilingual both verbal and written in English and Spanish is required

2+ years industry experience (or an academic background) in the oil and gas or manufacturing domain building analytical solutions (data-driven and/or simulations) for production optimization and predictive maintenance, such as general well monitoring, well event predictions (risk identification), production planning, flow assurance, etc. is required

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field. 

1-3 years of relevant work experience as a data scientist (preferably within related industry)

Proficient experience with Python, SQL and AI IDEs such as Claude Code, Cursor. Experience with efficient usage of AI tools is a plus

Experience with machine learning methods and techniques, statistics and/or optimisation

Experience with Git

Experience working customer faced, with external customers 

Enjoy working in cross-functional teams 

Enjoy challenges and dare to set ambitious goals that drive innovation

Humility to ask for help and enjoy sharing knowledge with others

A typical day as a Cogniter will contain the following tasks & responsibilities

Develop and deploy scalable solutions for customer use cases from Oil and Gas, Energy, Manufacturing, Pharma, Life-Sciences, Power & Utilities industries using Cognite’s core capabilities

Participate in and contribute to intensive use case generation workshops with subject matter experts to understand the problem and how it maps to the data

Perform data cleansing and exploratory data analysis

Implement physical models / machine learning models in Python and deploy to our model hosting environment

Apply GenAI techniques to enhance data-driven decision-making in customer use cases 

Develop web applications built on Cognite Data Fusion with the help of AI agents

Utilize and contribute to solution templates and best practices within the Data Science team

Collaborate with data engineers, project managers and solution architects on project deliveries to enable our customers to achieve the full potential of our industrial DataOps platform

Support customers and partners in conducting data science tasks with Cognite products

Learn more about us

Impact 2025

Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot

We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.

Source: Cognite careers (Greenhouse)

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