job: Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Agentic Data Engineer work arrangement:hybrid work location: 1401 E Broad St Richmond, VA 23219 interview: web cam and in person pay rate: $ 102.05 per hour duration: 7/21/25 - 12/31/25 + possible extension job 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. 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