Position: Lead Data Scientist, Innovation Lab

Location: Calgary, Alberta

Remote Status: Hybrid

Job Id: 229

# of Openings: 1

PakEnergy is accelerating its innovation. Help us lead it.

More than 2,300 oil and gas companies run their land, production, accounting and transportation on PakEnergy. We've started putting AI to work across that platform. Now we're accelerating our pace of innovation, and we're building the PakEnergy Innovation Lab to do it.

The Lab's mandate is simple: find the highest-value problems our customers face, prove solutions quickly with working prototypes built on real operational energy data, and take what works into production. We're hiring a Lead Data Scientist to be the founding owner of data science and machine learning on the Lab's cross-functional team, reporting directly to our Chief Product Officer. This is a hands-on lead role: you'll build the models and write the code yourself while setting direction for the discipline. You'll have real autonomy. You own the data science approach on Lab projects, help shape the opportunity backlog with the Chief Product Officer and the industry experts, and make the call, backed by evidence, when an idea should stop. We value candor over polish: a quick, well-reasoned "this won't work" is a good outcome. Our data spans several product platforms, and part of the job is spotting the data gaps that limit what we can ship and helping close them.

What we've already shipped with Pak AI

- AI-powered lease provision analysis (PakEnergy Land). Embedded AI that flags key lease provisions in seconds instead of hours, so land teams can manage large portfolios and acquisitions faster.
- PakCAPTURE™ (PakEnergy Transportation). Drivers photograph tickets,



receipts and paperwork in the mobile app. Pak AI extracts the key data, auto-populates pickup and drop-off forms, and files the documents with the right load.
- OnPing Plunger™ (OnPing). Optimization for plunger-lift wells. Pak AI learns each well's best historical runs, compares actual against expected performance, and tunes setpoints within the operator's automation and safety limits, or flags the well for human review. It has delivered up to 30% more production on conservatively set wells and 3.5–7% on wells that were already well optimized.

These are the first steps. The Innovation Lab is where the next ones get found, proven and shipped.

The team

- The Innovation Lab brings together everyone it takes to go from a customer problem to a working product:
- Industry experts for every PakEnergy product: Land, Production, Accounting and Transportation. They know the workflows, the data and the customers firsthand.
- A Lead Applied AI Engineer, your peer, who designs and builds the Lab's generative AI, LLM and agentic systems and gets them into production.
- Solution engineers who take prototypes to customers and into production.
- You, the Lab's founding owner of data science and machine learning.
- For a strong data scientist, this means you won't get requirements secondhand, you won't build in a vacuum,



and there's a clear path from your model to a customer. Domain experts frame problems with you, your peer lead in applied AI builds the generative AI side, and solution engineers put the results in customers' hands.

Why this role

- Founding owner of your discipline. You'll set the technical direction, standards and practices for data science in the Lab from day one, and help shape what the Lab works on.
- Real operational energy data. You'll work with SCADA and IIoT time series from OnPing, lease and contract documents, revenue and joint-interest accounting, and the tickets and paperwork behind every load hauled, across a customer base of more than 2,300 companies.
- Deep expertise around you. You'll work next to industry experts for every product, a peer lead in applied AI and solution engineers, so you can focus on the data science while the team brings domain depth and a route to customers.
- Ownership from prototype to production. You own the data science from problem framing through modeling and evaluation, and see it through customer pilots into production.
- A direct line to leadership. You report to the Chief Product Officer, and your work shapes the Pak AI roadmap.
- A path to leading a team. There are no direct reports today. As Innovation Lab initiatives mature and demonstrate value, this role is set up to help build and lead the Lab's data science team.

What you'll do

- Frame problems with the industry experts. Partner with the Lab's Land, Production, Accounting and Transportation experts to turn customer pain points into well-defined, measurable data science problems, and size the opportunity.
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📌 Lead Data Scientist, Innovation Lab (Calgary)
🏢 PakEnergy
📍 Calgary