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.