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AI/ML Software Developer

Austin, TX – HYBRID – Locals Preferred

One year contract

Looking for the candidates who can work without any visa sponsorship.

A Software Developer Specialist will focus on engineering-related software services, including model ingestion, automated quantity extraction, plan conformance checks, and CI/CD automation. Leveraging PEPS ensures compliance with procurement regulations while enabling rapid onboarding of specialized talent.

The Senior Software Developer Specialist will be responsible for advancing TxDOT's AI initiatives by extending existing proof-of-concept (POC) solutions into scalable, production-ready web applications that directly support transportation engineering workflows. This role will focus on transforming early-stage AI models and prototypes—such as those supporting plan review automation, roadway asset detection, and digital delivery—into fully integrated applications accessible through secure, user-friendly web interfaces across the enterprise.

Term of Service: The initial term of the contract shall commence upon execution of the contract and expires one year from commencement with the option to renew for two, one-year period(s) at TxDOT's sole discretion. TxDOT will provide an intent to renew, in writing, a minimum of 30 days prior to expiration of the current term.

NOTE: The dates, listed below, are estimated and based on the anticipated award date of the contract and will be in accordance with the DIR contract.

1st Renewal Option: One year based on commencement.

2nd Renewal Option: One year based on commencement.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years	Required/Preferred	Experience
8	Required	Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or OCI for deploying and managing ML workloads. We leverage AI/ML tools across all major cloud providers (Azure AI, AWS SageMaker/Bedrock, Google Cloud Platform Vertex AI, OCI AI Services).
8	Required	DevOps: Ansible, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes experience.
8	Required	Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL/vector databases.
8	Required	Scripting: Proficient in both Bash and PowerShell for automation.
8	Required	CI/CD Experience: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar automation pipelines.
3	Required	Python: 3-5 years production experience, this is your primary language.
3	Required	NLP/LLMs: Experience with transformers (BERT, GPT, T5), RAG systems, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or building LLM applications.
3	Required	Time Series: Forecasting models, anomaly detection, sequential data modeling, or real-time monitoring systems.
3	Required	Recommender Systems: Collaborative filtering, ranking models, personalization engines, or content recommendations.
3	Required	MLOps Tools: Production experience with MLflow, Weights & Biases, Kubeflow, Airflow, or similar platforms.
3	Required	Distributed Training: Large-scale model training, multi-GPU/multi-node setups, efficient data parallelism.
3	Required	Computer Vision: Production CV experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow, OpenCV, YOLO, object detection, segmentation, or real-time inference.
3	Required	Feature stores (Feast, Tecton) or advanced feature engineering.
3	Required	Model optimization: quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation.
3	Required	LLM Models: Ollama, Huggingface, or other non-frontier models
2	Required	AI/ML Production: Built and deployed 2-3 ML models serving real users, not just experiments.
1	Preferred	Experience with Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and analyzing spatial data.
1	Preferred	Prior experience in the transportation, logistics, or smart city sectors.
1	Preferred	Background in Computer Vision (object detection, image segmentation) applied to infrastructure or vehicular data.
1	Preferred	Familiarity with public sector data compliance, security, and governance standards.
1	Preferred	Experience with the Unreal gaming engine and real world digital twinning
1	Preferred	Experience with Google Maps Cesium API
1	Preferred	Experience with Polygonflow Dash and its capabilities

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