Sr Staff AI Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

Sr Staff AI Engineer (AWS): Designing and delivering scalable, production-ready AI solutions with an accent on LLM-based services, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and document intelligence. Focus on implementing enterprise AI capabilities via AWS native technologies and optimizing system performance, scalability, and observability.

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $148,000 - $190,000

Company

A long-standing financial services organization providing life insurance, annuities, and wealth management to individuals and businesses across the U.S.

What you will do

• Design and maintain production AI services using AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, and OpenSearch.
• Build RAG pipelines, including embedding strategies, vector search, and prompt orchestration.
• Engineer LLM-enabled APIs and workflows integrated directly into enterprise applications.
• Develop solutions for unstructured data extraction, enrichment, and classification.
• Apply strong software engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and runtime observability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers on applied AI patterns and responsible AI practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3–5+ years focusing on AI/ML, data-intensive, or intelligent systems.
• 2–3+ years of hands-on experience delivering AI/ML solutions on AWS.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise-scale LLM systems, RAG, and vector search.
• Proficiency in cloud-native, serverless, and event-driven architectures.
• Must be based in the United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO).
• Opportunity to work on a Connected Data Strategy in a stable, 175-year-old organization.
• Collaborative environment working across Architecture, Data, and Product teams.