Agentic Data Engineer, Richmond, VA, United States
Agentic Data Engineer
Resource will need to be in Richmond, VA quarterly.
Agentic Data Engineer to design, develop, and deploy data pipelines that leverage agentic AI to solve real-world problems.
The Virginia Department of Transportation's Information Technology Division is seeking a highly skilled Agentic Data Engineer to design, develop, and deploy data pipelines that leverage agentic AI to solve real-world problems. The ideal candidate will have experience in designing data processes to support agentic systems, ensure data quality, and facilitate interaction between agents and data.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing data pipelines for agentic systems, developing robust data flows to handle complex interactions between AI agents and data sources.
- Ability to train and fine-tune large language models.
- Design and build the data architecture, including databases and data lakes, to support various data engineering tasks.
- Develop and manage Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) processes to ensure data is accurately and efficiently moved from source systems to analytical platforms used in data science.
- Implement data pipelines that facilitate feedback loops, allowing human input to improve system performance in human-in-the-loop systems.
- Work with vector databases to store and retrieve embeddings efficiently.
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to preprocess data, train models, and integrate AI into applications.
- Optimize data storage and retrieval for high performance.
- Perform statistical analysis to identify trends and patterns, creating data formats from multiple sources.
Qualifications:
- Experience training LLMs with structured and unstructured data sets.
- Understanding of Graph Databases.
- Experience with Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lakes, and Azure Databricks.
- Utilize data storage systems like Spark to implement partition schemes.
- Understanding of core machine learning concepts and algorithms.
- Familiarity with cloud computing skills.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with AI/ML frameworks.
- Proficiency in vector databases and embedding models for retrieval tasks.
- Expertise in integrating with AI agent frameworks.
- Experience with cloud AI services (Azure AI).
- Experience with GIS spatial data to create markers on maps (latitude, longitude, nearest topology of roads, geo-locating between datasets, correlation, etc.).
- Experience with Department of Transportation data domains, developing an AI composite agentic solution to identify and analyze data models, connect and correlate information to validate hypotheses, forecast, predict, recommend potential strategies, and conduct what-if analysis.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, AI, Data Science, or a related field.
Skill Matrix:
- At least 1 year understanding of big data technologies.
- At least 1 year experience developing ETL and ELT pipelines.
- At least 1 year experience with Spark, GraphDB, Azure Databricks.
- At least 1 year expertise in data partitioning.
- At least 3 years experience in data conflation.
- At least 2 years experience training LLMs with structured and unstructured data sets.
- At least 3 years experience with GIS spatial data.