The key is time zone coverage and so we can expand our search across the West Coast - remote/hybrid but necessarily located in the western time zones. You must be comfortable to travel to the client site for workshops/meetings.
- Senior Data Engineer (GenAI / AWS)
Overall experience: 12-20+ years Cloud Platform: AWS Primary Language: Python
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop data pipelines using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, S3, Textract, and Comprehend.
- Build automated document-processing workflows for extracting, transforming, and processing structured and unstructured data.
- Implement document chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, and semantic search.
- Develop and maintain vector databases and knowledge bases to support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Integrate knowledge bases with AI agents for contextual information retrieval.
- Build AI agents using Claude Agent SDK and deploy them on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate builds, testing, and deployments.
- Optimize data pipelines for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
Must-have vs. good-to-have skills
Must-have
Good-to-have
Python, SQL
TypeScript
AWS Step Functions, Lambda, S3
AWS Glue
Amazon Textract and Comprehend
Document AI / OCR
Vector databases and embeddings
OpenSearch, Pinecone, pgvector
Document chunking and indexing
Advanced retrieval and reranking
RAG and knowledge-base integration
LangChain / LlamaIndex
Amazon Bedrock
Claude Agent SDK
GitHub Actions CI/CD
Terraform / AWS CDK
AWS IAM and API integrations
AgentCore Runtime
Important: If this individual must personally build and deploy the Claude agents, move Claude Agent SDK and AgentCore Runtime into the must-have category.
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