AI Tech Lead (Cortex AI)

ClifyX; Owings Mills (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ClifyX in Owings Mills, MD is seeking a senior AI engineer to design, develop, and deliver AI agents and agentic workflows using Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

You will lead a small-to-medium AI development team in an onsite–offshore model, collaborating with Cortex AI services, Snowpark Python, and CI/CD to ship reliable AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience with Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
• 2+ years building LLM-powered apps with agentic workflows.
• Strong Python and SQL programming skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deliver AI agents per requirements.
• Lead an AI development team onsite–offshore.
• Collaborate with product, engineering and data stakeholders.
• Maintain code quality with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Snowflake AI

LLM apps

Agentic workflows

Cortex AI

Snowpark Python

Python

SQL

Git

CI/CD

Agile

Team leadership

Communication

Analytical

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Snowpark

Snowflake

Python IDEs

Job description

5+ Hands on experience on Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

2+ years of proven experience with building LLM-powered applications including agentic workflows with measurable impacts.

Strong hands-on experience with Cortex AI services: Analyst, Search, AI SQL, Vector Embedding etc.

Experience in developing scalable data centric applications using Snowpark containers in Python.

Hands-on experience in creating conversational agentic apps using natural language prompts in Snowflake Intelligence.

3+ years of experience in SQL & Python programming.

Knowledge of Snowflake hosted LLM model garden (Claude, Llama, OpenAI, Mistral, Arctic etc) will be a plus.

Familiarity with LLM model evaluation methodologies.

Working experience in Snowflake managed / custom MCP servers.

Strong experience working with GIT and CI/CD pipelines.

Strong working experience in Agile based product development processes.

Good written and verbal communication skills.

Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Design, develop and deliver AI Agents as per the requirements

Lead an AI development team of small to medium capacity in onsite – offshore model.