AWS AI Engineer
Job Description
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Optional life and disability insurance provided
- 401(k) with a company match and optional profit sharing
- Paid vacation time
- Paid Bench time
- Training allowance offering
- Eligible for referral bonuses
The role focuses on building retrieval-augmented generation systems and production AI and ML services on AWS within a secure, scalable cloud-native infrastructure and governance framework. Sacramento, CA based with remote work options.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on work with AWS services including Lambda, Bedrock, SageMaker, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and S3
- Design and implement AWS cloud services across infrastructure, machine learning, and AI platform layers
- Develop LLM based applications and RAG architectures using LangChain and related frameworks
- Build cloud-native microservices, APIs, and serverless functions to enable intelligent automation and real-time data processing
- Partner with internal stakeholders to translate business goals into secure, scalable AI solutions
- Own the software release lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines, GitHub SDLC, and infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Support the evolution of reusable platform components for AI and ML operations
- Create and maintain technical documentation for the team and internal customers
- Demonstrate strong verbal and written English communication
Requirements
- 7 years of hands-on software engineering experience with a strong focus on Python
- Experience with AWS services, especially Bedrock or SageMaker
- Familiarity with fine-tuning large language models or building datasets and deploying ML models to production
- Experience with AWS organizations and policy guardrails (SCP, AWS Config)
- Solid background implementing RAG architectures and LangChain
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code practices and building Terraform modules for AWS
- Strong Git-based version control, code reviews, and DevOps workflows
- Proven track record delivering production-ready software with release pipeline integration
Technologies
- Python
- Bedrock
- SageMaker
- Lambda
- Step Functions
- DynamoDB
- S3
- LangChain
- Transformers
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Terraform
- GitHub
- Hugging Face
- Node.js
- Terraform Sentinel