AI Engineer III

ONEOK is a Fortune 500 company with over 100 years in business, serving as a leading midstream service provider. We prioritize safety, sustainable operations, and environmental responsibility while maintaining a strong focus on our employees.

About the role

The ONEOK Data Science team creates intelligent cloud-native solutions that drive value-added decision-making processes. As part of the team, you will implement these solutions using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and numerical optimization. This role offers a fast pace, high levels of autonomy, hands-on collaboration with business partners, continuous learning, and significant opportunities for personal growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain AI systems, including agents, harnesses, tools, and evaluation pipelines, ensuring reliability, latency, cost, and accuracy.
• Design and implement advanced algorithms for numerical optimization, forecasting, computer vision, machine learning, and anomaly detection when off-the-shelf AI solutions fall short.
• Develop and implement cloud-based infrastructure to host and run AI and ML models.
• Design, tune, and evaluate purpose-built tools, function calls, and prompt templates.
• Develop custom user interfaces for AI workflows based on user requirements.
• Ensure AI systems meet ONEOK IT and security standards as they transition to production.
• Collaborate with security and IT teams to maintain compliance and operational integrity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field with relevant job experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including demonstrated experience shipping and maintaining AI/ML systems in production environments.
• Extensive experience with LLM-based systems, including agent frameworks, tool use, evaluations, prompt engineering, and retrieval.
• Strong Python engineering skills, with familiarity in at least one of: optimization, forecasting, or computer vision.
• Experience designing APIs, SDKs, or frameworks consumed by other engineers.
• Proven track record deploying and managing systems in production, including monitoring, incident response, and cost management.

Skills

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis tools and programming languages (e.g., Python, R, SQL). Experience with modern data platforms (e.g., Spark, Databricks, Snowflake) is a plus.
• Large Language Models (LLMs): Proficiency in the LLMs ecosystem, including agentic coding, AI harnesses, model APIs, and third-party providers such as Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, and OpenAI.
• Cloud Platforms: Proficient in cloud platforms including IaaS and PaaS (e.g., AWS, Azure, Terraform) with experience deploying and managing data solutions in cloud environments.
• Software Development: Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, code repos, and branching strategies (ADO, GitHub, GitLab).
• Databases: Skills in relational database design, including table structures, indexes, and primary/foreign key fields.
• Communication: Ability to present solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences, and interact effectively with diverse teams.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to develop solutions to complex issues using abstract thinking in new or challenging situations.
• Project Management: Ability to manage and prioritize multiple assignments with competing deadlines.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to read and interpret reports, production statistics, contracts, financial statements, and legal documents. Proficiency in applying math, algebra, statistical, and volumetric methods.
• Mentorship: Ability to mentor less experienced personnel on complex technologies.

Benefits

ONEOK is committed to providing a supportive and inclusive work environment. We offer reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities to participate in the application and hiring process.

Pay

Expected salary range: $114,000.00 - $172,000.00.

Physical Demands

• Work Environment: Sedentary work involving sitting most of the time, with occasional walking or standing. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally.
• Repetitive Motion: Frequent use of computers and constant repetitive motion (e.g., typing, handling, fingering).
• Vision: Constant near vision (20 inches or less), frequent far vision (20 feet or more), and depth perception. Ability to distinguish colors.
• Communication: Frequent talking and hearing.
• Other: Occasional climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, and occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling.

Working Conditions

• Employee is subject to inside environmental conditions in well-lighted, climate-controlled areas.
• Constant use of CRT/computer monitors.
• Ability to travel to support IT infrastructure initiatives, project implementations, or collaboration across business locations as needed.
• May require a valid driver's license if assigned a company vehicle.