Technical Manager Agentic AI

Job Description

NOTICE OF FILING OF

APPLICATION FOR PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT CERTIFICATION

An application for permanent labor certification for the position described below will be filed by Norfolk Southern Corporation with the U.S. Department of Labor.

Job Title: Technical Manager Agentic AI

Norfolk Southern Corporation seeks a Technical Manager Agentic AI based in Atlanta, Georgia. This position will be responsible for leading AI initiatives from problem formulation through productionization, including model design, deployment, governance, and performance monitoring. This position will be responsible for developing novel computer vision and applied AI solutions, coordinating with business stakeholders, external vendors, and application development teams. This position will provide technical leadership to junior team members, support hiring and evaluation efforts, and communicate results to colleagues, business partners, and senior management. This individual will be required to telecommute to the office in alignment with Norfolk Southern’s office/remote - hybrid work policy.

Job Duties

Job Duties:
•    Independently lead NSIQ initiatives from problem formulation through productionization, including governance, KPI design, model deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring, while ensuring alignment with business outcomes.
•    Provides consistent guidance to junior scientists, contributes to hiring and evaluation processes, and elevates overall team capability through knowledge sharing and technical leadership.
•    Effectively partners with business stakeholders and external vendors to define high-impact use cases, communicate results to senior leadership, and ensure successful integration of AI solutions into production systems.
•    Consistently delivers high-quality solutions on time in a highly competitive and specialized technical field.
•    Serves as a leading expert in computer vision and applied AI, architecting novel solutions (including non-traditional datasets and approaches) and acting as the primary driver behind key models and capabilities.
•    Design, develop, and implement novel computer vision algorithms for unique use cases.
•    Design and build novel custom CNN architectures.
•    Evaluate accuracy and quality of the designed models as well as data sources.
•    Stay up to date with the latest models and changes in the technology.
•    Design and develop production ready code.
•    Communicate results and implications to colleagues and business partners.
•    Coordinate with application development teams to integrate developed models with existing applications.
•    Manage the complete model development life-cycle from requirements gathering to post-production support.
•    Communicate results to colleagues, business partners, and senior management.
•    Provide guidance to junior team members and oversee targeted research and team projects.
•    Lead hiring efforts and candidate evaluation.   

Job Requirements: 
•    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related, relevant field (equivalent foreign degrees accepted).
•    Minimum of one (1) year of experience as a Computer Scientist, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, and/or Machine Learning Scientist developing deep learning models. This experience must include at least one (1) year of experience:
o    Developing solutions in Python;
o    Utilizing TensorFlow, Keras, and/or PyTorch;
o    Applying deep learning to image processing, including semantic segmentation, object detection, and classification;
o    Working with various camera technologies, such as area scan and line scan cameras;
o    Utilizing CNN architectures, such as VGG16, ResNet, MobileNet, and YOLO; and
o    Applying traditional image processing techniques using OpenCV and skimage.
•    Must be able to work weekends and on-call as necessary.  

Location of Employment

Location of Employment: 

650 West Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308

Apply via email: [email protected] or call (585) 402-9131.

Salary: $190,000 to $240,000 per year

This notice is provided as a result of the intended filing of an Application for Permanent Employment Certification for the above job opportunity.  Any person may provide documentary evidence bearing on this application to:

Certifying Officer

U.S. Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

Office of Foreign Labor Certification

200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5311

 Washington, DC 20210

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