Computer Programming Specialist Jobs in Texas (NOW HIRING)

Respond by: 06/11/2026

Rate: DOE

Type: Contract

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Austin TX

Please respond with resume and 3 references preferably supervisor (name, title, company, email, phone number)

Background Check will be performed if a candidate is selected for placement and will have to be passed'

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 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, Google Cloud Platform, or OCI for deploying and managing ML workloads. We leverage AI/ML tools across all major cloud providers (Azure AI, AWS SageMaker/Bedrock, Google Cloud Platform 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

III. TERMS OF SERVICE

Services are expected to start 06/15/2026 and are expected to complete by 06/14/2027. Total estimated hours per Candidate shall not exceed 2080 hours. This service may be amended, renewed, and/or extended providing both parties agree to do so in writing.