Remote Senior AI Data Engineer – AWS Production AI

Robots and Pencils; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and deliver the data and AI infrastructure behind an enterprise agentic AI platform. You will own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture decisions, and drive reliable, scalable data pipelines on AWS in collaboration with AWS Professional Services for a large enterprise client.

The role focuses on observability, data lake pipelines, and building agent-enabled AI systems, with senior engineering teammates and a focus on

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software or data engineering experience, with 2+ years building data platforms and shipping AI/ML or agentic systems in production on AWS.
• Strong software engineering background (Python and SQL, or similar).
• AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate or near-term path to earning it.
• Hands-on experience building data lakes on AWS (S3, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, Iceberg/Parquet).
• Experience with observability for distributed and AI systems (CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry/ADOT, Grafana, SageMaker Model Monitor).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy data and AI/ML systems on AWS end-to-end, from concept through production.
• Establish an agentic AI framework and related tooling and service enablement for fleet-scale operations.
• Maintain and evolve production platforms, monitor drift, debug issues, and improve reliability.
• Bring an AI-forward coding mindset using Claude and Cursor to ship high-quality work.

Skills

Python & SQL

AWS

Data lakes

Observability

MLOps

CI/CD

IAM/KMS security

Agent enablement

Claude/Cursor tools

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Claude

Cursor

Bedrock

LangGraph

SageMaker

AWS CDK

Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and deliver the data and AI infrastructure behind an enterprise agentic AI platform. You will own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture decisions, and drive reliable, scalable data pipelines on AWS in collaboration with AWS Professional Services for a large enterprise client.

The role focuses on observability, data lake pipelines, and building agent-enabled AI systems, with senior engineering teammates and a focus on