Remote Gen AI Engineer (AWS)

Insight Global; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global in Chicago is seeking a Senior AI Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering team and deliver data and AI capabilities for key initiatives. You will partner with Data Product Management, and Data Science to design, build, and operationalize scalable ingestion, transformation pipelines, GenAI-enabled pipelines in Snowflake and AWS.

You will lead ingestion and transformation, implement Snowflake Cortex AI workflows, develop prompt/versioning, and contribute to observability with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of total work experience with at least 5+ years in data engineering.
• 2+ years hands-on experience developing and deploying Generative AI applications.
• Strong Snowflake expertise including SQL, Tasks/Streams, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cortex AI (or equivalent production LLM platform).
• Experience developing Snowflake Native Apps using the Snowflake Native App Framework (Snowpark with Python/Scala, packaging, versioning, upgrades, secure distribution).
• Strong AWS experience (S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudFormation, and Kinesis).
• Proficiency in Python (production-grade code, testing, packaging).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Experience building structured extraction pipelines from free-text inputs at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement ingestion pipelines from multiple source systems into Snowflake using AWS services and Python.
• Build and optimize SQL-based transformation pipelines for text cleansing, normalization, and deduplication.
• Implement Snowflake Cortex AI workflows for classification, extraction, and structured data generation.
• Develop prompt versioning, response parsing, validation, and fallback logic.
• Snowflake Native App Development: build and deploy apps, manage objects, permissions, versioning, upgrades, and release workflows; integrate Snowpark logic and CI/CD.
• Define, instrument, and track data and model quality KPIs (precision, recall, coverage, drift, error rates).
• Integrate Arize (or comparable platform) for observability, monitoring, and root-cause analysis of model behavior.
• Support production rollout and operational readiness: deployment automation, runbooks, documentation, and handoff to internal teams.

Skills

GenAI applications

Data engineering

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Snowflake

Snowflake Cortex AI

Snowpark

AWS

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Job Description

The Senior AI Data Engineer will join this global hotel company's Data Engineering team to deliver data and AI capabilities for key initiatives. This role partners closely with Data Product Management, and Data Science to design, build, and operationalize scalable ingestion, transformation pipelines, GenAI-enabled pipelines in Snowflake and AWS.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement ingestion pipelines from multiple source systems into Snowflake using AWS services and Python.
• Build and optimize SQL-based transformation pipelines for free-form text cleansing, normalization, and deduplication.
• Implement Snowflake Cortex AI workflows for classification, extraction, and structured data generation.
• Develop robust prompt versioning, response parsing, validation, and fallback logic.
• Snowflake Native App Development : Build and deploy Snowflake Native Apps to package data/AI capabilities; manage application objects, permissions, versioning, upgrades, and release workflows; integrate Snowpark-based logic and CI/CD for repeatable delivery.
• Define, instrument, and track data and model quality KPIs, including precision, recall, coverage, drift, and error rates.
• Integrate Arize (or a comparable platform) for observability, monitoring, and root-cause analysis of model behavior.
• Support production rollout and operational readiness: deployment automation, runbooks, documentation, and handoff to internal teams.

Skills and Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with 5+ years of Data Engineering experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying Generative AI applications.
• Strong Snowflake expertise, including advanced SQL, Tasks/Streams, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cortex AI (or an equivalent production LLM platform).
• Experience developing Snowflake Native Apps using the Snowflake Native App Framework (e.g., Snowpark with Python/Scala, application packaging, versioning, upgrades, and secure distribution patterns).
• Strong AWS experience, including S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudFormation, and Kinesis.
• Strong Python proficiency (production-grade code, testing, packaging).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins; and IaC with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience building structured extraction pipelines from free-text inputs at scale (parsing, validation, deduplication, and quality controls).
• Experience implementing ML/LLM observability in a production environment as a Gen AI Engineer, implementing calling LLMs, and evaluating the LLM outputRelevant certifications are a plus (AWS, Snowflake)Cortex AIDataDogAI Observability toolingExperience in hospitality, customer profile, personalization, or preference management domains.Experience with human-in-the-loop workflows and taxonomy-driven classification systems.Familiarity with data privacy and compliance requirements for customer data.Experience with Snowflake governance and security patterns (e.g., RBAC, masking policies, row access policies, tagging).Experience with automated regression testing for prompts and LLM outputs (prompt evaluation frameworks).Experience with Snowpark Container Services or containerized ML/AI services operating close to data.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].