Snowflake Cortex AI Engineer

• OnTrac is seeking a Snowflake Cortex AI Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI-powered data solutions on Snowflake for an enterprise financial-services customer in Las Vegas.
• This role is ideal for a highly technical, customer-focused engineer who can engage executives, architect solutions, and build production-grade AI and data platforms hands-on.

Responsibilities

• The role combines customer engagement, solution architecture, data engineering, and hands-on AI implementation, with a strong focus on Snowflake Cortex AI, Cortex Code (CoCo and CoCo Desktop), and Snowpark.
• You will take solutions from workshop and proof of concept through to production.
• Design and implement AI-powered data solutions using Snowflake Cortex AI, Cortex Code (CoCo), and CoCo Desktop
• Develop and deploy retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, semantic layers, and enterprise AI applications
• Architect scalable data platforms on Snowflake, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, dbt, and cloud-native services
• Build robust ELT/ETL pipelines and real-time integrations
• Lead customer workshops, architecture reviews, proofs of concept, and production deployments
• Develop reusable accelerators, patterns, and best practices

Requirements

Expected start: ASAP

• Location: Las Vegas, NV — onsite Monday to Friday
• You must be located in, or willing to relocate to, the Las Vegas area, and authorized to work in the United States
• Bachelor's degree, plus 12+ years of IT experience after completing it
• 5+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platforms
• Deep expertise in Snowflake architecture, security, governance, and performance optimization
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cortex AI, Cortex Code (CoCo / CoCo Desktop), Snowpark, and AI/ML integration patterns
• Experience building LLM, RAG, vector search, and agentic AI solutions
• Strong SQL and Python
• Experience with Airflow, dbt, Spark, Kafka, and at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong customer-facing communication and solution-architecture skills

Preferred

• Snowflake certifications (SnowPro Advanced: Architect, Data Engineer, or AI specialization)
• Streamlit, Dynamic Tables, Snowpipe, and Snowflake Native Apps
• Integrating OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or open-source models
• Knowledge of enterprise security, governance, privacy, and compliance frameworks
• Banking, payments, or other regulated financial-services experience

ENGAGEMENT

Duration: long term; full-time or contract