TAMIDS Senior / Lead AI Engineer
The Texas A&M University System1 day ago
College Station, TX, USASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain data-driven, AI-enabled, or research-focused applications.
- Build end-to-end applications incorporating web dashboards or portals, backend services, and AI or analytical functionality.
- Design or operate pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and managing structured and unstructured research data.
- Support AI-enabled applications on institutionally managed infrastructure and commercial AI platforms, including execution, resource usage, and reliability.
- Work with high-performance computing resources, job schedulers, parallel programming, and large datasets on high-performance file systems.
- Assess AI application behavior against user needs and refine configurations, workflows, or inputs.
- Apply software engineering practices including testing, debugging, version control, dependency management, and documentation.
- Develop example applications, reference implementations, reusable templates, onboarding materials, guides, and walkthroughs.
- Direct the technical work of junior peers.
- Provide technical guidance through consultancy, training, and workshops for faculty, researchers, students, project teams, end-users, and non-specialists.
Requirements
- Senior-level candidates must have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience, two years of experience developing data-driven, AI-enabled, or research-focused applications, and experience providing technical guidance on AI systems and applications.
- Lead-level candidates must have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination and experience, five years of experience developing data-driven, AI-enabled, or research-focused applications, and experience designing and delivering technical guidance on AI systems and applications.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree related to Data Science or Artificial Intelligence and formal professional training in applied artificial intelligence with hands-on enterprise-style AI platform experience.
- Preferred experience includes AI-enabled research applications, end-to-end application development, research data pipelines, high-performance computing, scientific programming, and deployment on institutional and commercial AI platforms.
- Preferred experience includes assessing AI application behavior, applying reliable software engineering practices, creating reusable examples and documentation, directing junior peers, and providing technical guidance to research communities.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life and AD&D, flexible spending accounts, and long-term disability insurance, with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums.
- 12–15 days of annual paid holidays, up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month.
- Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
- Free exercise programs, release time, professional development resources, LinkedIn Learning training, webinars, and limited financial support for conferences and workshops.
- Educational release time and tuition assistance for completing a degree while employed by Texas A&M.
- The position is in person in College Station, Texas, may require up to 10% or more travel, and may require work beyond normal office hours or on weekends.
- The position is contingent on continuation of grant or contract funding and satisfactory job performance.
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About The Texas A&M University System
The Texas A&M University System is a public higher-education and research system that operates 12 universities, a comprehensive health science center, eight state agencies, Texas A&M–Fort Worth, and the RELLIS Campus. It educates students, conducts research, commercializes technology, and delivers extension and public-service programs across Texas, funded by state appropriations, tuition, grants, and contracts. Headquartered in the Bryan–College Station area, the System coordinates systemwide services and shared infrastructure through its System Offices.