Geophysical Processing and Imaging Specialist

Geophysical Processing and Imaging Specialist

Location:

Spring, TX, US

Company:
Exxon Mobil

At Exxon Mobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net‑zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.

The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower‑emissions technologies.

We invite you to bring your ideas to Exxon Mobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.

Exxon Mobil's state‑of‑the‑art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.

By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.

The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I‑45), at the intersection of I‑45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.

The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities.

Recent expansion in High Performance Computing resource helps accelerate seismic data processing and technology development for energy resource exploration.

We are looking to hire dynamic, creative, and resourceful candidates for Exxon Mobil’s seismic processing core group in Spring, Texas. Candidates will be responsible for delivering seismic imaging solutions to the company business lines on challenging geophysics problems by leveraging state‑of‑the‑art processing technologies. Candidates will be expected to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to understand business and technical challenges, develop appropriate seismic imaging solutions, lead and execute the processing projects, and deliver the products while ensuring uptake by the teams.

Responsibilities include:

• Contribute to and lead all stages of seismic processing including signal processing, velocity model building, depth imaging, and full wavefield inversion.
• Conduct analysis, recognize issues, support the formulation of new and innovative workflows and methods to resolve problems, and ensure optimal quality of results.
• Work with a broad range of Geoscientists to devise technical solutions to meet business objectives.
• Work with research geophysicists and computational scientists to deliver new seismic processing technologies and algorithms.
• Direct and influence vendor‑leveraged processing projects.

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on seismic processing and imaging experience within the Oil and Gas industry, with a proven track record of technical problem‑solving and innovation
• Strong background in signal processing that may include streamer, Ocean Bottom Node (OBN), and land seismic data.
• Extensive experience in velocity model building, including Full Waveform Inversion, as well as advanced imaging techniques.
• Broad technical knowledge enabling effective integration and collaboration within multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Permanent right to work…