Specialist

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. 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.

Job Description:
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.
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, 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