Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Overview

Hybrid
$90 - $100
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Machine Learning
SQL
Python

Job Details

The Virginia Department of Transportation's Information Technology Division is seeking a highly skilled Artificial Intelligence Engineer 4-Agentic Data Engineer to design, develop, train, and deploy data models that leverage agentic AI that solve real-world problems.
Responsibilities:
Gather business needs and translate them to analytics.
Produce code that is clearly documented, and maintain a version-control system.
Develop machine learning models that will address business needs.
Effectively communicate analytics results to a range of stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Demonstrated ability to perform research and communicate analyses to a wide range of audiences.
Co-author or principal investigator for 5 or more peer-reviewed publications using advanced computational or statistical analyses and/or advanced ML methods.
10+ years of leading data science projects or teams.
Gathers business requirements needed for analytics.
Experience mentoring or guiding junior team members.
Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning, model selection, feature engineering, and evaluation metrics.
Experience with big data frameworks like Spark/Databricks.
Experience with code version-control systems such as Git.
Degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field.

Skills Table:

Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience

Advanced proficiency in Python and/or R
Required
10
Years

Knowledge of SQL Databases
Required
10
Years

Experience with Spark, GraphDB, Azure Databricks
Required
5
Years

Experience training LLMs with structured and unstructured data sets
Required
4
Years
Experience with Machine Learning
Required
4
Years
Experience with GIS spatial data
Required
2
Years

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