Resource will need to be in Richmond, VA Quarterly (Hybrid) Both Phone and F2F Interview is required - 2 Openings 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. Required/Desired Skills Advanced proficiency in Python and/or R – 10 Years Knowledge of SQL Databases – 10 Years Experience with Spark, GraphDB, Azure Databricks – 5 Years Experience training LLMs with structured and unstructured data sets – 4 Years Experience with Machine Learning – 4 Years Experience with GIS spatial data – 2 Years Nice to Have • Ph.D. in a STEM field (Natural sciences, Computer Science, Statistics) – 0 Years