Programmer (AI/ML) Operational Digital Twin

Parsons Corporation

Parsons is seeking a Programmer (AI/ML) to support the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale Geospatial Digital Twin programme for a major national infrastructure owner in the Middle East. This multi-year initiative will design, build, and operationalize an Operational Digital Twin platform that integrates geospatial data, real-time IoT/SCADA feeds, asset information, and core enterprise systems to enable data-driven planning, operations, and maintenance. The role will work closely with the Software Development Lead, Data & Architecture team, and a team of international experts, developers, and engineers.

The scope spans discovery and stakeholder engagement, analytical use case design, proof-of-concept delivery, implementation of a production-grade environment, post-implementation support, and structured training and knowledge transfer. The Programmer (AI/ML) will help design and implement analytical and machine-learning components, support data preparation and feature engineering, contribute to testing and performance tuning of models and services, and assist in ensuring that AI/ML capabilities are robust, explainable, and aligned with key Digital Twin use cases.

What You ll Be Doing

• Support the Software Development Lead and Data & Architecture team in designing and implementing AI/ML components for the Operational Digital Twin across discovery, PoC, implementation, and post implementation support phases.

• Assist in preparing and transforming data for modelling (including cleaning, joining, aggregating, and feature engineering) using structured, time series, and geospatial datasets.

• Develop an AI-powered knowledge and query assistant leveraging large language models and a retrieval augmented generation engine.

• Help develop, train, and validate AI/ML models (e.g. for prediction, classification, anomaly detection, optimisation, or forecasting) using agreed tools, libraries, and frameworks.

• Develop and deploy trained models as scalable services or microservices, integrating them with the Digital Twin platform and upstream/downstream applications and APIs.

• Assist in implementing monitoring, performance tracking, and periodic retraining processes for models, and in troubleshooting issues related to data drifts, accuracy, or stability.

• Help document AI/ML components, including data assumptions, model choices, limitations, and usage guidelines, and support knowledge transfer and handover to client and operations teams.

What Required Skills You ll Bring

• Degree in computer science, data science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution.

• Experience developing AI/ML solutions using languages and libraries such as Python, Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow and PyTorch).

• Working knowledge of core machine learning concepts (feature engineering, model selection, training/validation, overfitting, evaluation metrics) and basic statistics.

• Experience with data preparation and handling of large or complex datasets, ideally including time series, sensor, or geospatial data.

• Familiarity with geospatial platforms (e.g., Esri ArcGIS) and using spatial data as features in analytical models.

• Exposure to deploying models to production (e.g., as APIs, batch jobs, or streaming components) and to integrating them with applications or data platforms.

• Experience working within multidisciplinary, multinational teams across multiple time zones.

• Strong organisational and coordination skills, with some experience in structured project or delivery environments (e.g., PMI, PRINCE2, Agile/Hybrid).

• Exposure to testing, acceptance, or go live activities for analytical or data driven solutions.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to clearly explain data, models, and results to non technical stakeholders.

• Fluency in spoken and written English; Arabic language skills are a strong advantage.

What Desired Skills You ll Bring

• Prior work with national infrastructure owners, transport authorities, utilities, or public works organisations.

• Experience applying AI/ML in Digital Twin, smart city, asset management, or operations optimisation contexts.

• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and modern data/ML tooling (e.g., MLflow, Databricks, Azure ML, or similar).

• Professional certifications in data science, machine learning, or cloud data/AI services.