AI Engineer

Crescent is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined, returns-driven growth through acquisition strategy and consistent return of capital. Our long-life, balanced portfolio combines significant cash flow from stable production with a deep, high-quality development inventory. Crescent is a top three producer in the Eagle Ford basin and a scaled operator in each of the Permian and Uinta basins. Crescent’s leadership is an experienced team of investment, financial and industry professionals that combines proven investment and operating expertise. For more than a decade, Crescent and our predecessors have executed on a consistent strategy focused on cash flow, risk management and returns. Through disciplined and accretive investments, we have successfully tripled the size of our company since going public in December 2021 while maintaining a strong balance sheet.Crescent Energy is seeking an AI Engineer to build practical AI solutions and help employees use them effectively. This role combines hands-on software and AI engineering with employee education and community building. You will work with teams across engineering, operations, finance, and IT to turn business needs into secure, dependable applications, and to help colleagues learn where AI can add value in their work.The successful candidate enjoys both building and teaching: improving AI applications through code, testing, and evaluation while creating useful learning experiences that help employees adopt AI with confidence.Key ResponsibilitiesAI Engineering· Design, build, test, and support AI applications, assistants, and workflow automation for operational, technical, financial, and business needs.· Contribute to the shared AI platform and its specialized applications through software development, data and API integrations, user interfaces, and workflow capabilities.· Improve AI application behavior through clear instructions, prompt and context design, retrieval, tool use, and workflow logic.· Develop representative evaluation cases and regression checks; investigate failures and improve accuracy, source grounding, task completion, and reliability using test results and user feedback.· Compare model and application changes using consistent evaluation methods, considering quality, security, response time, and operating cost.· Integrate AI applications with approved databases, business systems, APIs, and document repositories while respecting access controls and data handling requirements.· Use validated data sources and deterministic calculations for numerical results, with AI supporting retrieval, explanation, and communication.· Apply sound engineering practices, including code review, automated testing, deployment pipelines, logging, monitoring, documentation, and support.Employee Education and Community· Build an active internal community of AI users and champions across business functions.· Plan and facilitate practical workshops, demonstrations, office hours, and learning sessions for employees with different levels of experience.· Create clear, reusable learning materials and examples based on real Crescent workflows, including how to review AI outputs and handle company information appropriately.· Gather employee questions, feedback, use cases, and adoption barriers; translate recurring needs into improvements to AI applications, evaluations, and learning resources.· Partner with subject matter experts and technical colleagues to keep training accurate, useful, and aligned with available capabilities.· Measure whether education and AI tools are helping employees, using participation, continued engagement, user feedback, and workflow outcomes.Required Qualifications· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.· Professional software development experience building and supporting applications.· Hands-on experience developing applications powered by large language models or other AI techniques.· Proficiency in a modern programming language and SQL, with experience working with structured and unstructured data.· Experience working with APIs, enterprise systems, and software testing.· Ability to explain technical ideas clearly, listen to business needs, and collaborate with technical and nontechnical colleagues.· Strong problem-solving skills and sound judgment about AI limitations, data confidentiality, and when human review is needed.Preferred Skills and Experience· Upstream oil and gas experience, especially in production, drilling and completions, reservoir engineering, reserves and economics, or asset evaluation.· Experience facilitating employee learning or an internal technical community, including workshops, office hours, demonstrations, or champion networks.· Experience improving AI application quality through evaluation datasets, regression testing, error analysis, and structured comparison of changes.· Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, model tool use, or multi-step workflows.· Familiarity with cloud hyper-scalers, Snowflake or industry applications such as ARIES, WellView, or ProCount.· Experience delivering software or learning programs that achieve measurable improvements in productivity, analysis, decision-making, or employee confidence.What Success Looks Like· Employees are able to find practical guidance, get help, and use approved AI capabilities with confidence.· Employee feedback and recurring business needs lead to clear improvements in AI applications and learning resources.· AI application changes are supported by evaluation evidence and reliable software practices.· AI solutions deliver useful, measurable improvements to Crescent workflows.Crescent Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender/pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Crescent Energy is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you require accommodation to complete the application process, please let us know by contacting View email address on click.appcast.io: Houston, TXType: Full time