Need - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer 2- Austin, TX, Onsite - Locals Only

Title: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer 2

Company: Cynosure Technologies LLC

Location: Austin, TX (onsite job)

Client: State of Texas Department, Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT)

Experience: 13 years

Job Description: The AI Innovation team in ITD undertakes rapid development initiatives using AI/ML tools and platforms to drive business innovation at the Texas Department of Transportation.

• Evaluate emerging AI trends, tools, and vendor solutions against business use cases.
• Run proof-of-concepts (PoCs) to test the feasibility of new ideas.
• Design and build applications and AI/ML models tailored to specific use cases (e.g., predictive analytics, natural language processing, computer vision) prioritized for the AI Program.
• Create scalable AI pipelines that can be integrated into existing systems.
• Collaborate with data, engineering, and software development teams.

Minimum Years of Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:

• Strong Python, familiarity with Java / C / Go for production environments.
• Object-oriented programming and design patterns.
• Unit testing, CI/CD, Git, containerization (Docker).
• Data pipelines (Airflow, Prefect, or cloud-native equivalents).
• Model deployment (REST APIs, gRPC, serverless), monitoring, and versioning.
• AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform / OCI AI services.
• Cloud-native training/inference environments (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML).
• Kubernetes for scalable inference.

Schedule: Contractor