Data Scientist Jobs in Houston, TX

The Business Data Science and AI team works with business teams across the organization to identify, assess, and solve real business problems by analyzing all available data, including enterprise, connected product, and publicly available datasets, to create and discover meaningful insights. 

The Senior Data Scientist leads the design and delivery of Data Science and AI solutions across NOV’s global operations, mentors junior talent, and translates insights into measurable business outcomes.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will: 

• Partner with business leaders to identify high-value opportunities, understand workflows, define requirements, and select analytical approaches across functions such as sales, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance.

• Collaborate with domain experts, business analysts, data engineers, software engineers, and integration teams.

• Lead cross-business-unit and global data science initiatives, defining project scope, timelines, and deliverables with business leaders.

• Develop and validate machine learning models, from data preparation and feature engineering through algorithm selection and optimization.

• Deploy and maintain production-ready models and AI applications, including evaluation, monitoring, alerting, versioning, and retraining.

• Design and evaluate agentic AI solutions, including tool-using workflows and retrieval-augmented generation when appropriate.

• Establish reusable analytical and engineering practices for scalable, reliable solutions.

• Apply data governance, privacy, and security standards.

• Mentor interns, junior data scientists and analysts.

• Communicate findings and actionable recommendations through clear visualizations to technical, business, and executive audiences.