Senior Software Developer /Cloud Platforms

Role: Senior Software Developer /Cloud Platforms
Location: Austin, TX(Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term Contract

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Texas Department of Transportation requires the services of 1 Software Developer Specialist. They must meet the general qualifications of Software Developer Specialist, Applications/Software Development.

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.

WORKER 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, 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

III. TERMS OF SERVICE

Start Date: 06/15/2026
End Date: 06/14/2027
Total estimated hours per Candidate: 2080 hours. This service may be amended, renewed, and/or extended providing both parties agree to do so in writing.