AI Tech Lead (Cortex AI)

Title: AI Tech Lead (Cortex AI)
Location: Owing Mills, MD
Fulltime Position

Job Description:
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
§ 5+ Hands on experience on Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
§ 2+ 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.
§ 3+ years of experience in SQL & Python programming.
§ Knowledge of Snowflake hosted LLM model garden (Claude, Llama, OpenAI, Mistral, Arctic etc) will be a plus.
§ 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.

Roles & Responsibilities
§ Design, develop and deliver AI Agents as per the requirements
§ Lead an AI development team of small to medium capacity in onsite – offshore model.
§ Customer-facing engagement, communication, stakeholder management.