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Geophysical Researcher

Aramco
CO Full Time
POSTED ON 3/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/7/2025

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Geophysical Researcher to join the Geophysics Technology Division.

The Geophysics Technology Division is responsible to develop advanced processing and inversion technologies applied to seismic and Multiphysics data for geohazard identification, resource exploration and monitoring / surveillance.

As a Geophysical Researcher your primary role is to bring innovation and technological skills in applications targeting shallow and deep subsurface for resource exploration and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

As a successful candidate you will be required to perform the following :

  • Develop opportunities and solutions in geophysics data processing, inversion technology and AI developments that can bring significant realized value to Saudi Aramco.
  • Work with multiple Saudi Aramco departments to execute all phases of the technology development process including idea generation, technology development, field trials, deployment to users for validation, and production level implementation. Additional tasks may involve writing technical justification, contracting, project management, milestone evaluations, and commercialization.
  • Disseminate new geophysical technologies and research findings by writing patents, publishing in renowned scientific journals, presenting at technical meetings, and direct outside professional contactors.
  • Document and present findings internally and externally.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you will hold a :

  • PhD in Geophysics, Applied Mathematics, Telecommunication Engineering, Physics or related discipline from an accredited university.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in academia and / or oil industry, related to software development, inversion, and machine learning for seismic & Multiphysics data.
  • Experience in surface and borehole seismic acquisition for deep or shallow targets.
  • Knowledge and experience with exploration seismic and Multiphysics.
  • Skills in downhole and surface seismic data processing and analysis.
  • Understanding of seismic signal processing in time and depth domains, and proven ability for translating these skills in improved integrated solutions incorporating novel analysis techniques.
  • Knowledge and experience in seismic processing, velocity model building and seismic full waveform inversion.
  • Experience with geophysical methods required for near surface characterization such as : seismic, Ground-penetrating radar (GPR), electromagnetics, microgravity including processing, inversion and joint inversion via deterministic and / or machine learning approaches.
  • Knowledge of geophysical monitoring with seismic, Multiphysics data and through micro-seismic analysis.
  • Knowledge of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for seismic imaging and reservoir surveillance is a plus.
  • Keep up to date with latest developments in seismic and Multiphysics technology through work experience, patents, conferences, seminars, and papers in scientific journals.
  • Knowledge of computational programming skills (C / C , MATLAB, Python etc.) for stand-alone or plugin application development for parallel CPU and GPU clusters.
  • Working environment

    Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

    At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

    We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

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