Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Agentic Data Engineer - Hybrid Richmond, VA

Job DescriptionJob Description

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.
  

Requirements

Skills:
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
Ph.D. in a STEM field (Natural sciences, Computer Science, Statistics) Nice to have