Senior AI Engineer (Snowflake Cortex AI)

We are looking for an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join the team and help define, build, test, and fine-tune AI agents that allow business users to ask natural-language questions about enterprise data. The solution is being developed primarily in Snowflake, but experience with other solutions would also be highly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Define, configure, test, and continuously improve AI agents for analytical use cases
• Develop agent instructions, workflows, tools, guardrails, and evaluation criteria
• Build agents primarily within Snowflake, with AWS Bedrock experience considered an advantage
• Integrate agents with semantic models, governed data products, and business metrics
• Evaluate response accuracy, relevance, consistency, security, and business value
• Collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable agent capabilities
• Establish documentation, testing standards, monitoring practices, and lifecycle management for agents
• Apply strong SQL, analytical thinking, and troubleshooting skills to daily work

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, AI engineering, or related fields
• Practical experience with agent configuration and GenAI-assisted analytics, building analytical solutions that allow users to ask natural-language questions about enterprise data
• Proficiency in SQL and data analysis
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, including Snowflake Cortex, Cortex Agents, and Cortex Analyst
• Understanding of Snowflake data, security, and access-control concepts
• Ability to understand semantic models, business metrics, and relationships between data entities
• Experience evaluating GenAI outputs and systematically identifying quality gaps
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
• Understanding of agent observability, evaluation metrics, automated testing, and cost monitoring
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences
• Proficiency in English at a B2+ level

Nice to have

• Knowledge of AWS Bedrock
• Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, embeddings, and vector search, and grounding techniques
• Experience with Python, APIs, and Git
• Snowflake or AWS certification