About this role

SM Energy is seeking a hands-on AI R&D Engineer to explore, evaluate, and prototype emerging AI capabilities ahead of the mainstream. This individual contributor role sits in a small, two-person R&D pod within our Advanced Analytics and Emerging Technologies team, reporting to the team's IT Manager. The pod's job is to run ahead of the rest of the technology organization — spotting what's coming (agentic AI was visible well before it was widely adopted), proving it against real SM Energy workfl…