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Staff/Principal AI Software Engineer - Snowflake CoWork

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park$264k - $379.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Principal AI Engineer role focusing on defining and leading AI initiatives for Snowflake CoWork Intelligence, architecting multi-agent systems, and ensuring reliability and scalability of enterprise AI products.

Responsibilities

  • 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: Build world-class, automated hill-climbing infrastructure and establish methodology to measure and guarantee LLM performance across diverse customer schemas.
  • Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align AI capabilities with business goals; bridge Research and Production.
  • Ecosystem Thinking: Design extensible context engineering patterns—with advanced function calling and semantic layer integration for internal teams and external developers.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor Staff and Senior engineers, lead cross-functional strike teams, foster technical excellence and rapid experimentation.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years specifically leading the deployment of LLM-based applications at massive scale.
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.

Skills

Required:LLM orchestrationPrompt optimizationSemantic modelingGuardrails for non-deterministic systemsAI/system integration with data stacks
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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