Snowflake Cortex AI Engineer – RAG & Data Platform Lead

Photon; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is hiring a Snowflake AI Engineer to join our Digital Engineering team in Las Vegas, NV. You will design and operationalize AI-powered data solutions on Snowflake, focusing on Cortex AI, CoCO, and modern data platforms.

The role blends data engineering, solution architecture, and customer-facing engagements, building scalable pipelines and AI applications with Snowflake Cortex AI and related tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or Data Platforms.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake architecture, security, governance, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on Cortex AI, CoCO, CoCO Desktop, Snowpark, and AI/ML integration patterns.
• Strong SQL and Python skills; experience with LLM, RAG, vector search, and enterprise AI patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-powered data solutions using Snowflake Cortex AI, CoCO, and CoCO Desktop.
• Develop and deploy RAG, agentic workflows, semantic layers, and enterprise AI apps.
• Architect scalable data platforms leveraging Snowflake, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, dbt, and cloud services.
• Build robust ELT/ETL pipelines and real-time integrations.
• Lead workshops, architecture reviews, PoCs, and production deployments.
• Develop reusable accelerators and best practices.

Skills

Snowflake AI

GenAI / Agentic AI

SQL

Python

Customer-facing communication

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Spark

Kafka

Snowpark

CoCO

CoCO Desktop

Snowflake Cortex AI

Job description

Photon is hiring a Snowflake AI Engineer to join our Digital Engineering team in Las Vegas, NV. You will design and operationalize AI-powered data solutions on Snowflake, focusing on Cortex AI, CoCO, and modern data platforms.

The role blends data engineering, solution architecture, and customer-facing engagements, building scalable pipelines and AI applications with Snowflake Cortex AI and related tools.