Artificial Intelligence Engineer - Agentic Data Engineer

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Summary: An Information Technology Division in Richmond, VA is seeking a highly skilled Artificial Intelligence Engineer 4- Agentic Data Engineer to design, develop, train, and deploy data models that leverage agentic AI to solve real-world problems. This role involves translating business needs into analytics, producing documented code, and developing machine learning models to address business requirements.

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.

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