Jobs at SM Energy Company

Determines working interests, ownership burdens, and royalty impacts through title and lease analysis. Maintains revenue and joint interest billing decks, aligns ownership data across Well Master, JVA, and PRA, processes ownership transfers and pay code changes, resolves owner inquiries, and ensures compliance with contracts and regulations. Mentors junior analysts, supports process improvements, and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders.

Leads an infrastructure team supporting servers, storage, networking, cloud, virtualization, databases, collaboration systems, backup, disaster recovery, and field/OT networking. Oversees daily operations, reliability, architecture standards, roadmap execution, compliance, vendor management, budgeting, and continuous improvement. Coaches 8–10 infrastructure professionals, manages escalations and service levels, and supports secure infrastructure foundations for AI initiatives.

Build and productionize LLM-based and agentic AI systems, transforming validated prototypes into reliable enterprise deployments. Design shared AI platform capabilities including agent infrastructure, evaluation harnesses, deployment patterns, and sandboxes. Partner with data engineering, security, infrastructure, and delivery teams to integrate governed enterprise data, establish standards, and ensure operational readiness. Document architectures, support clean handoffs, and evaluate emerging AI technologies for enterprise use.

Systems Analyst supporting technical and geospatial applications, partnering with business users to troubleshoot issues, analyze root causes, configure and test systems, automate processes, improve data quality, and deliver sustainable solutions. The role develops documentation, leads training, supports upgrades, coordinates projects and vendors, and serves as a subject matter expert across applications, integrations, reporting, and business processes.

Supports division order owner relations, researches and resolves ownership and payment inquiries, maintains revenue and joint interest billing decks, processes ownership transfers and pay code changes, and ensures interest alignment across Well Master, JVA, and PRA. The role also interprets oil and gas ownership documentation, supports suspended funds and escheat processes, communicates with stakeholders, and mentors Land Administration Technicians.

Supports budgeting, forecasting, accruals, reconciliations, and management reporting for a business unit. Builds financial models and dashboards, validates forecast and actuals data, analyzes well-level variances, and provides actionable recommendations to leadership. Collaborates with engineering, planning, operations, asset teams, and FP&A while improving reporting and forecasting processes.

Explores and prototypes emerging AI capabilities, including LLMs, agent frameworks, MCP, and retrieval-augmented generation, using real enterprise workflows and data. Evaluates technologies, builds sandbox demonstrations, presents findings to technical and executive audiences, engages vendors, documents experiments, and hands validated prototypes to delivery teams. The role requires strong software engineering, rapid prototyping, independent judgment, business translation, and preferably upstream oil and gas experience.

Leads complex, enterprise-wide technology programs across business and IT teams, aligning strategic priorities with delivery. Responsibilities include program governance, roadmaps, dependencies, budgets, risks, vendors, data governance, AI initiatives, change management, adoption, benefits tracking, and transition to operations. The role partners with technical and business stakeholders across applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, automation, integrations, and analytics while mentoring project managers and communicating progress to leadership.

Own and evolve Peloton enterprise applications supporting upstream drilling, completions, and production operations. Partner with Operations and IT to manage application roadmaps, deliver integrations, reporting, automation, workflow improvements, data governance, training, and change management. Provide frequent hands-on field support, identify process-improvement opportunities, and drive technology adoption and operational excellence across field offices and drilling and completions sites.

Analyzes oil and gas titles, leases, ownership interests, burdens, royalty obligations, and division order requirements. Creates and maintains revenue and joint interest billing decks, processes ownership changes, aligns records across Well Master, JVA, and PRA, and supports owner relations inquiries. Researches non-routine ownership and payment issues, ensures contract compliance, and mentors junior staff. Requires knowledge of lease forms, title, conveyances, suspended funds, escheat, and related statutory requirements.

Manage and maintain hybrid on-premises and cloud data platforms, including Denodo, SQL Server, Snowflake, and Databricks. Responsibilities include system administration, performance tuning, access control, cost monitoring, orchestration support, CI/CD maintenance, troubleshooting, security guardrails, documentation, and platform reliability. The role supports data engineers by providing stable, secure, and highly available environments.