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    Vitol

    Energy and Commodities Trading

    GenAI Engineer

    Houston, United StatesOn-SiteFull-time3–5 yrs experiencePosted 1w ago
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    Job description

    We are looking for a motivated and technically curious AI Engineer to join our AI team. This is a hands-on, build-first role where you will work directly with end-users and internal stakeholders to design and deploy LLM-based automation solutions that create real commercial value.

    You will be embedded in a small, high-impact team of experienced practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of AI in the energy and commodities sector. From day one, you will build agentic workflows, develop AI Skills and MCPs using leading frontier models, and engage directly with business users to understand their needs and translate them into working solutions.

    This role expects active ownership from day one: you will be accountable for your deliverables and expected to drive delivery and operate with a high level of autonomy.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Collaborate with end-users across trading, operations, and support functions to identify automation opportunities and develop LLM-based solutions tailored to their workflows
    • Design, prototype, and iterate on agentic AI workflows that solve real business problems
    • Develop production-ready prompts, AI Skills, and MCPs
    • Engage regularly with stakeholders to gather feedback and refine solutions
    • Translate business problems into clear technical requirements, solution designs, and delivery plans to build, integrate, and deploy solutions
    • Contribute to the team's shared knowledge base and document your work clearly

    What You'll Gain

    • Commodities & finance: Work at the heart of one of the world's largest energy and commodities trading companies, including oil, gas, metals, and shipping markets
    • Practical AI in finance: Shape how AI is applied for automation, decision support, and commercial advantage in a fast-paced trading environment
    • Agentic systems: Build directly with cutting-edge agentic frameworks and access to frontier model capabilities
    • A degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related), with 3 to 5 years of professional experience in software, data, or AI engineering
    • Fluency in Python: Ability to write clean, modular, well-documented code, with strong understanding of engineering best practices
    • Familiarity with AI and LLMs: you understand how language models work and have built with them, including hands-on experience with prompting and agentic patterns (tool use, function calling, or MCP)
    • Familiarity with Git and version control workflows
    • Familiarity with Docker, containerization concepts
    • Exposure to modern full-stack development practices
    • Strong ability to engage with and understand the needs of non-technical end-users
    • Clear communicator who asks good questions and quickly picks up new domains
    • Curiosity for emerging AI developments, with a proactive commitment to continuously learning, experimenting and expanding your skills
    • Intellectual curiosity about commodities markets, global energy flows, and the commercial dynamics of trading; willingness to develop deep domain knowledge as part of the role

    Additional Information

    • Independent and self-organized, able to manage your own time and priorities with minimal oversight
    • Prior experience building products or shipping projects (side projects welcome)
    • A builder mindset, you default to making things rather than just discussing them
    • Proficiency in Excel is a plus
    • Experience building MCP servers or clients, RAG pipelines, or multi-agent systems is advantageous
    • Experience with prompt engineering and developing reusable AI Skills
    • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
    • Some knowledge of, experience with, or interest in quantitative finance and derivative markets
    • Prior work on LLM evaluations (evals) or model benchmarking is a plus

    Comprehensive benefit coverage includes:

    • Medical
    • Dental
    • Vision
    • Paid Vacation
    • 401k with company contributions
    • Life insurance
    • Short-term & Long-term disability

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Vitol

    We are the world’s largest independent energy and commodities trading company. Every day we use our expertise and logistical networks to distribute energy around the world, efficiently and responsibly. From 40 offices worldwide, we seek to add value across the energy supply chain, including deploying our scale and market understanding to help facilitate the energy transition. To date, we have committed over $1 billion of capital to renewable projects, and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world. Our people are our business . Talent is precious to us and we create an environment in which individuals can reach their full potential, unhindered by hierarchy. Our team comprises more than 65 nationalities and we are committed to developing and sustaining a diverse work force.  Learn more about us here . ATB is owned by Vitol and it is the 7th crude refinery plant in Malaysia. Located at Pontian, Johor Darul Ta'zim, the 32kbpd refinery, is well-positioned to supply both the local bunkering and growing energy markets across the region. The refinery neighbours VTTI-owned ATB terminal which includes over 1m m3 storage as well as 6 onsite jetties and can accommodate any size or type of tanker. This unique positioning enables us to offer our customers a secure and fully integrated supply chain, from production and blending of quality marine fuels, to storage and delivery. Designed to be highly energy-efficient, the refinery deploys state-of-the-art technology including a distillation unit with a prefractionation column.

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