Senior AI Engineer (Snowflake Cortex AI)

We are looking for an experienced Senior AI Engineer to join the team and help define, build, test, and fine-tune AI agents that allow business users to ask natural-language questions about enterprise data. The solution is being developed primarily in Snowflake, but experience with other solutions would also be highly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Define, configure, test, and continuously improve AI agents for analytical use cases
• Develop agent instructions, workflows, tools, guardrails, and evaluation criteria
• Build agents primarily within Snowflake, with AWS Bedrock experience considered an advantage
• Integrate agents with semantic models, governed data products, and business metrics
• Evaluate response accuracy, relevance, consistency, security, and business value
• Collaborate with technical teams and business stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable agent capabilities
• Establish documentation, testing standards, monitoring practices, and lifecycle management for agents
• Apply strong SQL, analytical thinking, and troubleshooting skills to daily work

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, AI engineering, or related fields
• Practical experience with agent configuration and GenAI-assisted analytics, building analytical solutions that allow users to ask natural-language questions about enterprise data
• Proficiency in SQL and data analysis
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, including Snowflake Cortex, Cortex Agents, and Cortex Analyst
• Understanding of Snowflake data, security, and access-control concepts
• Ability to understand semantic models, business metrics, and relationships between data entities
• Experience evaluating GenAI outputs and systematically identifying quality gaps
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
• Understanding of agent observability, evaluation metrics, automated testing, and cost monitoring
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences
• Proficiency in English at a B2+ level

Nice to have

• Knowledge of AWS Bedrock
• Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, embeddings, and vector search, and grounding techniques
• Experience with Python, APIs, and Git
• Snowflake or AWS certification

We offer

• We gather like-minded people:
• • Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
  • Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
  • Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
  • Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
  • Business-driven relocation opportunities
• We provide growth opportunities:
• • Career development programs
  • Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
  • Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
  • English classes
• We cover it all:
• • Stable pay
  • Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
  • Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
  • Referral bonuses up to $2,000
  • Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
  • Corporate, social and well-being events
• Please, note:
• • Benefits listed above are available to employees only
  • We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
  • We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively

EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.