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Title: Senior Data Engineer (GenAI / AWS)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 2 days onsite
Duration: 6+ month contract-to-hire
Experience Range: 6-10 years
Number of Positions: 1
Interview: Video
Locals Only
AWS Certification required.
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Our client is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with 6-10 years of experience to design and build advanced data pipelines and AI-powered document processing solutions on AWS. This role focuses on developing end-to-end workflows that integrate generative AI, vector databases, and RAG architectures to support intelligent agent systems.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
Design and develop scalable data pipelines using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, S3, Textract, and Comprehend for extracting and processing structured and unstructured data
Build automated document-processing workflows with document chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, and semantic search capabilities
Develop and maintain vector databases and knowledge bases to support RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems and integrate them with AI agents for contextual information retrieval
Build and deploy AI agents using Claude Agent SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate builds, testing, and deployments
Optimize data pipelines for scalability, reliability, security, and performance across production environments
Implement infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and AWS CDK for repeatable, maintainable deployments
Requirements
6-10 years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or similar role
Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and TypeScript
Hands-on experience with AWS services: Lambda, S3, Step Functions, Glue, IAM, and Bedrock
Demonstrated expertise with vector databases (Pinecone, pgvector, OpenSearch) and embedding technologies
Experience building RAG systems, knowledge bases, and semantic search solutions
Proficiency with AI/ML frameworks and libraries: LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Claude Agent SDK
Experience with Document AI, OCR technologies (Textract), and NLP services (Comprehend)
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, AWS CDK) and CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions)