Senior AI Engineer, Enterprise

Senior AI Engineer - Cortex Code

Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.About the Role The Cortex Code team is building the future of coding agents for working with data. See our flagship product in action: Cortex Code in Action: Live Demos + AMA. Your work will directly impact how developers and businesses build with data. You'll own the full AI engineering lifecycle: design, prompt/tool engineering, evals, deployment, measurement, and optimization. You'll work with a small, high-powered modeling and infrastructure team. What you will do in this role: * Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Cortex Code products. Build agentic workflows, coding harnesses, evaluation pipelines. * Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, agent teams, and verification/repair. * Design evals and hillclimb : create golden sets, create rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to hill climb on the metrics. * Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to productionize improvements. * Work with an elite team of engineers towards building great products Requirements: * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred but not a requirement. * 5+ years of experience shipping AI features in production. * Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Typescript, Go * Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment. * (Optional) Experience working with data engineering pipelines (dbt, airflow), data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers is a plus. Nice to have: * Deep experience with agentic coding tools (e.g. IDE agents, CLI agents) and intuition for model strengths, failure modes, and prompting limits. * Background in data engineering (dbt, Airflow), data modeling, analytics, retrieval / RAG, or semantic layers — highly relevant for data-centric coding agents. * Prior work on eval harnesses, LLM observability, or safety / guardrails in production. You may be a particularly good fit if you: * Have built and owned complex systems — pipelines, orchestration, or software with substantial state, branching logic, and operational requirements. * Thrive in high-intensity environments with short feedback loops and high standards for rigor. * Take problems to completion independently: you don’t stop at a prototype; you care about production reliability and clear metrics. * Are a power user of modern coding agents and care about turning that intuition into systematic measurement and improvement. About Snowflake Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud trusted by the world's most innovative companies. We're shipping production-ready AI applications at scale and want you to join us in building the future of how businesses interact with their data through Cortex Code, Cortex agents, Cortex analyst, Cortex search. Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

Principal AI Software Engineer - Snowflake Intelligence

Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. ABOUT THE ROLE The Cortex Apps team is defining the future of AI for enterprise data. Our mission is to transform how the world’s largest enterprises interact with their data through flagship products like Snowflake Intelligence. As a Principal AI Engineer, you will be a technical North Star for our AI initiatives. You won't just execute on a roadmap; you will help define it. You will tackle the most complex, "frontier" problems in agentic reasoning, NL-to-SQL, and enterprise-scale RAG, ensuring our AI products are not only innovative but fundamentally reliable and scalable for the Fortune 500. WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS ROLE: * Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define the long-term technical vision for Snowflake Intelligence. Lead the architectural design of multi-agent systems, complex tool-use frameworks, and self-correcting NL-to-SQL engines. * Drive Industry-Leading Reliability: Move beyond simple evals to build world-class, automated "hill-climbing" infrastructure. You will establish the methodology for how Snowflake measures and guarantees LLM performance across diverse customer schemas. * Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align AI capabilities with business goals. You will bridge the gap between Research (modeling) and Production (infra), ensuring the latest LLM breakthroughs are viable at Snowflake scale. * Ecosystem Thinking: Design extensible "context engineering" patterns—including advanced function calling and semantic layer integration—that can be leveraged by other Snowflake teams and external developers. * Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier. You will mentor Staff and Senior engineers, lead cross-functional "strike teams" on high-stakes projects, and foster a culture of technical excellence and rapid experimentation. REQUIREMENTS: * Experience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years specifically leading the deployment of LLM-based applications at massive scale. * Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field. * Expertise: Deep, "under-the-hood" understanding of LLM orchestration. You should be an expert in prompt optimization, semantic modeling, and building robust guardrails for non-deterministic systems. * Systems Thinking: Proven track record of designing complex systems that integrate AI with traditional data stacks (SQL, Retrieval Systems, Semantic Layers). * Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to both executive leadership and ICs. You are as comfortable in a design doc as you are in a boardroom. * Proven Impact: You have previously held a "Principal" or equivalent high-level IC role, or have led the technical launch of a major AI product used by millions. ABOUT SNOWFLAKE Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud. We aren't just shipping "wrappers"; we are building the foundational intelligence layer for the world’s data. Join us as we scale Cortex, including Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex Agents, Analyst, and Search—to define the next decade of enterprise computing. Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

Senior Manager, Developer Relations

Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. ABOUT THE ROLE Snowflake’s mission is to mobilize the world’s data as the AI Data Cloud. Our AI & Developer products including CoCo for builders, CoWork for knowledge workers and well our developer tools like Notebooks, Streamlit, and App Runtime are how we put that mission into the daily workflows of developers and data teams. We're looking for a senior Developer Relations leader to own how builders discover, adopt, and succeed with Snowflake's AI and Developer portfolio, and to build and lead a team of Developer Advocates doing that work. You'll set the developer point of view for an ambiguous, fast-moving product area, manage and grow a team of DAs, and stay technical enough to set the quality bar yourself. WHAT YOU'LL DO Own the developer strategy for AI & Developer tools * Shape the developer point of view for complex, emerging product areas; anticipate where builders get stuck and align on the adoption path. * Connect market shifts, developer behavior, customer demand, and Snowflake strategy to influence product direction. * Maintain full awareness of the AI and Developer landscape and be the voice of the developer internally. Set the technical and quality bar * Personally produce and review production-quality adoption assets reference apps, quickstarts, demos, deep-dive guides, talks that withstand customer, field, and launch scrutiny. * Establish reusable patterns and review systems that raise content quality and accuracy across the team. Drive launches and reusable adoption systems * Lead multi-team launch adoption motions for priority AI & Developer products: define day-0 builder readiness, success metrics, dependencies, and follow-on adoption work. * Build durable adoption infrastructure such as repos, quickstarts, demos, workshops, field kits, docs patterns, playbooks, and discoverability across human channels, docs, search, AI assistants, community, and partners so wins compound instead of resetting each launch. Close the loop between developers and product * Run durable developer-signal loops that synthesize community, field, support, docs, usage data, and launch learnings into product feedback. * Build developer signals as a first-class product input that changes the roadmap and adoption priorities. Represent Snowflake in the ecosystem * Build and sustain Snowflake's credibility in strategic developer and open-source communities as a community member. * Enable your team and Snowflake engineers to participate credibly in these communities. Lead and grow the team * Create clarity in ambiguity, define the work, surface tradeoffs, and make cross-functional execution easier across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Community and various field teams. * Set clear goals and operating rhythms; balance hands-on contribution with enabling your team to do their best work. * Manage, coach, and develop a team of Developer Advocates; own hiring, performance, growth, and career development against the DevRel ladder. WHAT YOU'LL BRING * 10+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Developer Experience, or a closely related technical field, with a track record of driving measurable developer adoption. * 5+ years of leadership experience managing, mentoring, or formally leading technical/DevRel teams, with the judgment to hire and grow advocates. * Strong hands-on technical foundation: you can build and debug real demos and explain architecture tradeoffs to both builders and internal partners. * Working fluency with modern AI development: how LLMs work (prompting, grounding, evaluation), common patterns (RAG, tools/agents, function calling), and hands-on experience building with LLM APIs or agent frameworks (e.g., Snowflake Cortex, OpenAI, Anthropic, OSS models). * Solid grounding in data and analytics workflows (SQL, ELT/ETL, dbt, orchestration) and empathy for the day-to-day realities of data and engineering teams. * Excellent communication and storytelling able to turn complex AI and data concepts into clear narratives for technical and executive audiences. * Demonstrated cross-functional leadership: influencing senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Field, and Marketing, and turning ambiguous work into executable plans. * Comfort defining outcome-based metrics and using data plus qualitative signals to prioritize, iterate, and decide what to stop doing. NICE TO HAVE * Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data platforms. * Familiarity with the Snowflake developer ecosystem, such as Notebooks, Streamlit, Cortex Agents, CoCo, CoWork etc. * Recognized community standing committer/maintainer role, foundation/governance participation, or a sustained presence in strategic developer communities. * A history of building reusable adoption systems (reference architectures, diagnostic tools, workshop programs) and communities * Prior experience as a software, data, or ML/AI engineer. WHY JOIN * Shape how AI agents change the way data and engineering teams build, at a strategic inflection point for Snowflake. * High visibility: your team's work shows up in key narratives with top customers and senior leadership. * Build and lead a team in a greenfield, high-impact area with real ownership from day one. * Be part of a culture that values thoughtful craftsmanship, velocity, and customer obsession. Our Human Resources Department may use artificial intelligence to support its administrative processes. This role is available and may represent a new position. This role is exempt from Ontario’s job posting requirements. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com