Snowflake Cortex AI Engineer

Ontrac Solutions • Las Vegas, NV

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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. 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. The engineer will take solutions from workshops and proofs of concept through production. The position is intended for a highly technical, customer-focused engineer who can engage executives, architect solutions, and build production-grade AI and data platforms hands-on.

The engagement is expected to start ASAP and is long term. It is full-time or contract, onsite Monday through Friday in Las Vegas, Nevada. Candidates must be located in or willing to relocate to the Las Vegas area and authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 12 years of IT experience after completing the degree.
• At least 5 years of experience 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 skills.
• Experience with Airflow, dbt, Spark, Kafka, and at least one cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong customer-facing communication and solution-architecture skills.
• Must be located in or willing to relocate to the Las Vegas area.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Snowflake certifications, such as SnowPro Advanced: Architect, Data Engineer, or AI specialization.
• Experience with Streamlit, Dynamic Tables, Snowpipe, and Snowflake Native Apps.
• Experience 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 using 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior