Artificial Intelligence Developer

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Role: Artificial Intelligence Developer

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 12 months contract

Job ID: OCTO-Artificial Intelligence Developer 718801

Client: DC Govt, Agency: OCTO

Interview Process: video and/or In person interview

(3 days a week on site is required)( Must be local to DC,VA,MD)

Description:

OCTO's Data Team is looking for an AI Developer to assist in brining AI technology and techniques to DC Government agencies.
This position is located within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and serves under the Chief Data Officer (CDO) in the Enterprise Data program. OCTO's mission is to direct the strategy, deployment, and management of DC Government technology with an unwavering commitment to IT excellence, efficiency, and value for government, residents, businesses, and visitors.
The position functions as an Information Technology Specialist who serves as an AI developer responsible for building and helping implement artificial intelligence systems to serve District agencies. This includes working with DC Government agencies to solve identify opportunities to apply AI to improve District services and operations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with agencies to understand requirements and needs to identify opportunities to apply AI/ML solutions.
• Research and evaluate AI/ML industry best practices to determine feasibility and suitability to agency needs.
• Works with AI Analyst in gathering project requirements from internal and external customers.
• Leads prototyping and development of AI/ML models and systems, including large language models, natural language processing, computer vision, predictive analytics and other data modeling techniques and technologies.
• Trains, evaluates, and optimizes AI/ML models before deployment.
• Ensures AI/ML models adhere to responsible and ethical AI principles.
• Develops and implements testing strategies to ensure AI/ML systems meet needs of agencies.
• Works with AI Engineer to deploy and monitor AI/ML models.
• Contributes to committees and groups focused on data governance.
• Assists in communicating and presenting AI/ML initiatives and results to agency stakeholders.
• Provides guidance to agencies evaluating AI/ML tools or software that integrates AI/ML.
• Coordinates IT project management, engineering, maintenance, QA, and risk management.
• Plans, coordinates, and monitors project activities.
• Develops technical applications to support users.
• Develops, implements, maintains and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design, development, installation, modification, and documentation of assigned systems.
• Provides training for system products and procedures.
• Performs application upgrades.
• Performs, monitoring, maintenance, or reporting on real- time databases, real-time network and serial data communications, and real-time graphics and logic applications.
• Ensures project life-cycle is in compliance with District standards and procedures.

Required Skills

• Expertise with Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and other AI/ML software
• Expertise with Microsoft Azure Cloud platform, including Microsoft Azure AI and Machine Learning suite of services.
• Experience developing AI and ML models and applications for production.
• Knowledge of data security, ethics, and bias issues with AI systems.
• Knowledge of the AI/ML development lifecycle as a part of the Test-Evaluate-Verify-Validate framework.
• Strong math and statistical abilities for AI/ML algorithms.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team.

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Kanchan Illa

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Email: kanchan.illa@