
Staff / Principal AI Engineer Vaco LLC
- $170,000–$190,000 Per Year
| Location | Phoenix, AZ |
| Salary | $110,000–$130,000 Per Year |
Senior Engineer - AWS AI Platform, RAG and Agentic AI
Experience
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Engineer - AWS AI Platform & RAG Integration to serve as the technical bridge between the AWS Cloud Infrastructure team, Enterprise AI Platform team, Security, Networking, Data Engineering, and Application Development teams.
The Engineering Lead will drive the onboarding of AI use cases onto the enterprise AI platform by coordinating cloud infrastructure requirements, designing scalable AI integration patterns, and implementing Generative AI solutions using AWS native AI services.
This role combines technical leadership, solution architecture, hands-on engineering, and cross-functional coordination to accelerate enterprise AI adoption while ensuring scalability, security, governance, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
AI Platform Integration
RAG and Agentic AI Development
AWS Cloud Platform Engineering
Cross-Team Leadership
o AWS Cloud Infrastructure teams
< div>o AI Platform teams
o Security and IAM teams
o Networking teams
o Data Engineering teams
o Application Development teams
o Enterprise Architecture teams
AI Governance and Operational Excellence
Required Technical Skills
AWS Cloud: VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Step Functions, KMS, Secrets Manager, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Cost Analysis, Budgeting
AWS AI Services: Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker AI, Amazon Knowledge Bases, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Titan, Bedrock Agents, Bedrock Guardrails, Textract, Comprehend, Transcribe, Rekognition, Neptune
AI Technologies: RAG architecture, Vector databases, Embeddings, Vector Search, Sematic search, Prompt engineering, Context Engineering, Agentic AI, Multi-agent orchestration, MCP, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AI evaluation techniques, Hallucination Mitigation Techniques, AI governance, LLM Models (Anthropic)
Programming: Python, Java, REST APIs, SDK integration, Git, CI/CD, Claude Code
Data Skills: SQL, NoSQL, Document processing, Data chunking, Metadata management, Data ingestion pipelines
Leadership Skills: Executive communication, Cross-functional coordination, Technical leadership, Architecture governance, Stakeholder management
Preferred Qualifications
Salary Range- $110,000-$130,000 a year
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