Role: Artificial Intelligence Engineer – Agentic Data Engineer Location: Richmond, VA 23219 Remote Policy: Mostly remote — must be available to travel to Richmond, VA quarterly Duration: Long-term contract 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. MUST HAVE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Skill/Requirement Required Experience Advanced proficiency in Python and/or R Yes 10+ Years Knowledge of SQL Databases Yes 10+ Years Experience with Spark, GraphDB, Azure Databricks Yes 5+ Years Experience training LLMs with structured and unstructured data sets Yes 4+ Years Experience with Machine Learning Yes 4+ Years Experience with GIS spatial data Yes 2+ Years Ph.D. in a STEM field (Natural sciences, Computer Science, Statistics) Yes Yes