Software Developer Specialist AI/ML

Title: Software Developer Specialist – AI/ML

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid/Onsite)

Duration: 6 – 18 Months Contract

Qualifications

·        Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or OCI for deploying and managing ML workloads. We leverage AI/ML tools across all major cloud providers (Azure AI, AWS SageMaker/Bedrock, Google Cloud Platform Vertex AI, OCI AI Services).

·        DevOps: Ansible, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes experience.

·        Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL/vector databases.

·        Scripting: Proficient in both Bash and PowerShell for automation.

·        CI/CD Experience: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar automation pipelines.

·        Python: 3-5+ years production experience, this is your primary language.

·        NLP/LLMs: Experience with transformers (BERT, GPT, T5), RAG systems, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or building LLM applications.

·        Time Series: Forecasting models, anomaly detection, sequential data modeling, or real-time monitoring systems.

·        Recommender Systems: Collaborative filtering, ranking models, personalization engines, or content recommendations.

·        MLOps Tools: Production experience with MLflow, Weights & Biases, Kubeflow, Airflow, or similar platforms.

·        Distributed Training: Large-scale model training, multi-GPU/multi-node setups, efficient data parallelism.

·        Computer Vision: Production CV experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow, OpenCV, YOLO, object detection, segmentation, or real-time inference.

·        Feature stores (Feast, Tecton) or advanced feature engineering.

·        Model optimization: quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation.

·        LLM Models: Ollama, Huggingface, or other non-frontier models

·        AI/ML Production: Built and deployed 2-3+ ML models serving real users, not just experiments.

Preferred

·        Experience with Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and analyzing spatial data.

·        Prior experience in the transportation, logistics, or smart city sectors.

·        Background in Computer Vision (object detection, image segmentation) applied to infrastructure or vehicular data.

·        Familiarity with public sector data compliance, security, and governance standards.

·        Experience with the Unreal gaming engine and real world digital twinning

·        Experience with Google Maps Cesium API

·        Experience with Polygonflow Dash and its capabilities

Thanks & Regards
Rocky Thomas | M9 Consulting, Inc
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