Immediate requirement – Data Engineer – Candidate must be local to VA with local DL

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.