[Remote] Lead Gen AI/Agentic AI Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Apolis is seeking a highly experienced and driven Senior GenAI/Agentic AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of next-generation intelligent applications and autonomous agents. This role is pivotal in revolutionizing business operations through advanced AI technologies, requiring deep expertise in Generative AI and the full AWS Machine Learning and Data ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Develop MVP User Stories (Re-usable components/etc.)
- Support backlog creation, prioritization, and Story mapping
- Support in technical design and solutioning
- Ability to work across tiers – APIs, databases (basic developer tasks)
- Ability to utilize DevOps CI/CD pipeline, create/configure build and deploy jobs
- Experience working in XP and pair programming model and understands and performs TDD
- Responsible for assigned task delivery and quality and knowledge transfer through daily pairing
- Must be able to clearly communicate with team members and leadership
- Participate in paired programming and XP development
- Strong ability to work independently when required
- Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work
- Hands-on, Individual contribution and Mentor other developers in team
- Support team members on troubleshooting
Skills
- Extensive hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, Agent Core Platform, AWS Strands, SageMaker, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, and other core AWS services like Redshift, Aurora Postgres, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch
- Practical experience with foundational models (e.g., Anthropic Claude, Stability AI, Llama variants), including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and safety mechanisms
- Advanced proficiency in Python and its data science stack (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Familiarity with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, or RDS Vector Store for RAG implementations
- Proven experience with orchestration tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex for building autonomous agents
- Proficient in Terraform and Terraform Enterprise for scalable, automated infrastructure provisioning
- Experienced with Concourse and GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment workflows
- Hands-on experience with Apache Iceberg and a strong understanding of medallion architecture principles
- Skilled in building and optimizing Data Lakehouse solutions using open table formats to enhance performance and scalability
- 10+ years of experience in ML, NLP, AI system design with 1-2 years in Gen AI or Agentic AI (preferably 12-15 yrs)
- Candidate must be willing to attend in-person interviews
- Candidate must appear on video during all interviews and stay on video and audio for the entire duration of the interview timeslot
- Candidate must be ready for photo-id verification on all interview rounds
- No AI usage during interviews is permitted
- Good communication, pair programming and ability to work in multi-stakeholder team setup in must
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