Senior AI & Data Engineer (LLMs & Pipelines)

Aptos Retail; Indiana; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptos Retail is seeking a highly capable Data/AI Engineer to design and deploy AI-driven analytics tools that empower retailers. You will build robust data pipelines, optimize AI retrieval systems, and collaborate across Product, QA, DevOps and Implementation Services to translate complex business needs into actionable analytics.

Join a cloud-first team with Snowflake, SQL Server and vector databases, delivering scalable insights for thousands of stores.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering or machine learning engineering with at least one year of hand‑on experience with AI.
• Proven experience with orchestration frameworks and vector databases.
• Experience with modern databases (Snowflake, SQL Server) and data transformation tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain custom LLM agents.
• Build the semantic layer and semantic views for AI agents.
• Create RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines to democratize data access across the organization.
• Create and optimize production-grade data pipelines that feed ML models and vector databases.
• Deploy AI applications to cloud infrastructure and monitor model drift, latency, costs and hallucination rates.
• Evaluate, benchmark and tune prompt strategies, embedding models and vector search parameters.
• Write SQL queries to validate AI agent responses.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps and Implementation Services to translate business requirements into AI features.
• Collaborate with other engineering managers to align standards and platform initiatives.

Skills

Strong SQL knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

SQL Server

Vector databases

Orchestration frameworks

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

Aptos Retail is seeking a highly capable Data/AI Engineer to design and deploy AI-driven analytics tools that empower retailers. You will build robust data pipelines, optimize AI retrieval systems, and collaborate across Product, QA, DevOps and Implementation Services to translate complex business needs into actionable analytics.

Join a cloud-first team with Snowflake, SQL Server and vector databases, delivering scalable insights for thousands of stores.