Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Saransh Inc is seeking a Lead Cortex AI Engineer to design and implement LLM-powered applications using Snowflake Cortex AI capabilities. The role focuses on building agentic AI, RAG, semantic analytics, governance, observability, and optimized AI pipelines while leading a small-to-medium AI development team and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement LLM powered apps in Snowflake using its Cortex AI capabilities
- Build Cortex Analyst solutions on SQL based semantic models / views through natural language prompts
- Implement RAG workflows using Cortex search over unstructured documents and texts
- Design AISQ: pipelines to analyze multimodal data natively in SQL
- Create Agentic AI orchestration frameworks In Snowflake Intelligence
- Integrate Snowflake ML assets (Model Registry, Feature Store, Notebooks, Snowpark etc) where custom models are needed
- Enforce Snowflake Horizon governance patterns including RBAC, data encryption, auditability across internal and external data sources
- Ensure trusted AI practices (e.g. model safety & filtering)
- Optimize AI pipelines through right sizing of serverless compute, efficient application design, meeting desired latency
- Establish observability for Cortex AI services for application monitoring and cost management
- Manage the new requirements, create design artifacts, develop codebase, CI / CD pipelines
- Lead a team of small to medium capacity in an onsite-offshore model
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders such as Data Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Security/ Risk & Compliance etc.)
Skills
- 7+ Hands on experience on Snowflake AI Data Cloud
- 3+ years of proven experience with building LLM-powered applications including agentic workflows with measurable impacts
- Strong hands-on experience with Cortex AI services: Analyst, Search, AI SQL, Vector Embedding etc
- Experience in developing scalable data centric applications using Snowpark containers in Python
- Hands-on experience in creating conversational agentic apps using natural language prompts in Snowflake Intelligence
- 5+ years of experience in SQL & Python programming
- Familiarity with LLM model evaluation methodologies
- Working experience in Snowflake managed / custom MCP servers
- Strong experience working with GIT and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong working experience in Agile based product development processes
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong experience leading an AI development team of small to medium capacity in onsite – offshore model
- Strong experience in customer-facing engagement, communication, stakeholder management
- Knowledge of Snowlflake hosted LLM model garden (Claude, Llama, OpenAI, Mistral, Arctic etc) will be a plus
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