Senior Data & AI Engineer - Hybrid, AWS Bedrock & LLMs

Cruise Planners HQ; Florida; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cruise Planners is seeking a Data & AI Engineer to design, build, and operate the data and AI systems behind Cruise Planners' analytics, advisor-facing products, and internal automation. The role combines production data engineering on AWS with applied generative-AI work on Amazon Bedrock and the Strands Agents SDK.

The position involves day-to-day development using Claude Code with MCP, and the team operates end-to-end with a strong emphasis on documentation, collaboration, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant production experience scaled to level (Data & AI Engineer I / II / Senior).
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate data pipelines on AWS — Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, S3 — feeding the Redshift data warehouse.
• Stand up and operate containerized production pipelines on AWS Fargate / ECS with CloudWatch alarms and health monitoring.
• Design dimensional data models — facts, conformed dimensions, and analytics marts — on Redshift over a zero-ETL replica of the operational source.
• Implement document-extraction pipelines using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation blueprints and deliver structured output to downstream consumers via webhook or queue.
• Build and operate Bedrock Knowledge Bases for retrieval-augmented generation: source preparation, indexing, retrieval evaluation, and cost / latency tuning.
• Build agents using the Strands Agents SDK on Bedrock AgentCore — supervisor / sub-agent topologies, tool definitions, and deployment hardening.
• Build applied-LLM data products for reporting, search, and agentic operations.
• Deploy and operate services on AWS end to end, including internal web apps and demos.
• Build internal tooling and integrations, including MCP servers.
• Prototype and ship new AI-powered applications for advisors and internal teams.
• Maintain operational quality — logs, alarms, runbooks, on-call response, post-incident notes — and continuously monitor quality and compliance with data-privacy regulations.
• Conduct day-to-day development through Claude Code with project-scoped MCP servers, document decisions and architectures in the team wiki.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Data pipelines

Generative AI

DevOps / IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred at Senior level

Tools

Claude Code

MCP servers

Amazon Bedrock

AWS Fargate

Redshift

Job description

Cruise Planners is seeking a Data & AI Engineer to design, build, and operate the data and AI systems behind Cruise Planners' analytics, advisor-facing products, and internal automation. The role combines production data engineering on AWS with applied generative-AI work on Amazon Bedrock and the Strands Agents SDK.

The position involves day-to-day development using Claude Code with MCP, and the team operates end-to-end with a strong emphasis on documentation, collaboration, and compliance.