AI Specialist(Only W2)

Qualifications • Must have- AWS Bedrock, LLM (Claude preferred), Python/lambdas. • 3+ years of experience in prompt engineering, AI/ML, or related fields. • Deep understanding of large language models (e.g. Claude) and their capabilities. • Proven experience designing prompts for autonomous agents and multi-step reasoning tasks. • Strong knowledge of agentic frameworks and patterns (ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, Reflection, etc.). • Strong experience with AWS Bedrock (Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and foundational models). • Proficiency with AWS serverless services: Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3. • Knowledge of AWS security best practices including IAM, KMS, and VPC configurations. • Familiar with Terraform and HCP. • Proficiency in Python and experience with AI agent frameworks (e.g LangChain). • Experience with API integration and tool-use patterns for AI agents. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise). Additional experience expectations: • 5-9 years’ previous experience in software development. (Either 9 years of experience specifically in software development or seven years of experience in software development in combination with 2 years alternative experience in a related field). Ideally has a portfolio of work – code samples, etc. • Deep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing/consuming APIs. • Familiarity with several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow. • Experience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team. • Experience and ability to manage and optimize databases. • Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language. • Familiarity and able to comfortably work with multiple platforms. • Experience turning complex ideas into user stories. From that, can turn user stories into workable solutions, providing estimates to complete that work, and breaking down complex work into smaller components. • Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team. • Deep understanding of development cycle. • Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions. • Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times. • Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level. • Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels. • A deep and solid understanding of cyber security principles such as authentication, authorization and encryption. • Experience working with one or more CI/CD stacks and associated best practices. Ability to setup CI/CD for new products with no guidance. Recommends and implements modifications to CI/CD processes when continuous improvement opportunities are identified.