Senior Claude AI Engineer - Enterprise Data & RAG

Techstra Solutions; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Techstra Solutions in Pittsburgh is seeking senior AI/data engineering professionals to build enterprise AI applications that connect Claude-based LLMs to governed enterprise data. You will design, develop, and operationalize end-to-end AI solutions.

Lead efforts in RAG, agentic AI, and tool-calling, while ensuring security, observability, and governance across data pipelines, APIs, and business processes. Strong Python and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software, data or analytics engineering, with recent AI/GenAI experience.
• Hands-on experience building AI/ML applications using Anthropic Claude.
• Strong Python programming experience.
• Experience integrating commercial LLMs via APIs into production apps.
• Data engineering with Databricks, Spark, SQL, Delta Lake, ETL/ELT.
• Experience with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• CI/CD and modern software engineering practices.
• Ability to take a complex AI use case from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise AI applications with Claude and Claude APIs.
• Build LLM-powered products including AI agents, copilots, and RAG workflows.
• Develop prompting strategies for structured outputs, tool use, and agentic behavior.
• Create secure integrations to access enterprise data, APIs, and business processes.
• Implement RAG architectures across structured and unstructured data.
• Establish evaluation frameworks for quality, accuracy, reliability, and business impact.
• Set AI guardrails, observability, security, and responsible AI practices.
• Design end-to-end architectures for data ingestion to model interaction.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

GenAI

API integration

Data engineering

Databricks

Spark / PySpark

Cloud experience

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

PySpark

SQL

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

CI/CD

Job description

Techstra Solutions in Pittsburgh is seeking senior AI/data engineering professionals to build enterprise AI applications that connect Claude-based LLMs to governed enterprise data. You will design, develop, and operationalize end-to-end AI solutions.

Lead efforts in RAG, agentic AI, and tool-calling, while ensuring security, observability, and governance across data pipelines, APIs, and business processes. Strong Python and cloud experience are essential.