AIML Software Developer
Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
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Job Summary
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 TxDOTs 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 TxDOTs 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: | ||
| Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
| 8 | Required | Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS Azure GCP or OCI for deploying and managing ML workloads. We leverage AI/ML tools across all major cloud providers (Azure AI AWS SageMaker/Bedrock GCP 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 |
