AI/ML Engineer

AI/ML Engineer

Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting Services company based in Florida. We provide a wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support. We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT Staffing, Business/IT Strategy, Business Process Blueprints, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Transformation.

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid - On Site and Telework) Contract: 12+ Months

Job Description

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

Roles & Responsibilities

• 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.

Lumen Solutions Group Inc is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any legally protected status.