Job Info: • Job Title: Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Agentic Data Engineer • Client: State of VA • Start Date: 07/21/2025 (Tentative) • Position Type: Contract • Duration: 12/31/2025 (with possibility of extension) • Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid - quarterly) • Work Hours: 40 hours/week • Interview Type: Phone • Internal Job ID: OOJ - 4054 • Client Job ID: 766844 • • • Resource will need to be in Richmond, VA quarterly • • • 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 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 Ph.D. in a STEM field (Natural sciences, Computer Science, Statistics) Nice to have 0