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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer I, Frontier Engineering

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-CA-Menlo Park)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for Frontier Engineering team at Snowflake. Embeds with strategic customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems; senior technical partner to CTOs and enterprise engineering leaders; leads architecture, technical strategy, delivery, and AI quality initiatives with hands-on coding and customer on-site engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Be the trusted technical partner to customer engineering leadership: build durable relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data/AI; lead architectural steering, technical reviews, and executive strategy alignment to shape AI roadmaps.
  • Drive Architecture & Technical Strategy Across High-Stakes Deployments: own end-to-end technical execution and outcomes across complex AI engagements.
  • Stay hands-on: write production code and prototypes on critical parts of customer programs; review designs and code to set technical standards.
  • Own the AI quality bar: lead how the team measures and improves AI quality, turning customer goals into clear evaluation standards.
  • Provide Technical Leadership & Mentorship: mentor Senior and Staff engineers, raise engineering standards, and collaborate across teams on complex initiatives.
  • Travel to Customer Sites: spend at least 25% of time onsite with customers.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience
  • at least 3 years building and shipping production AI/ML or agentic systems at enterprise scale
  • proven track record as trusted technical advisor to CTOs and executive engineering leaders
  • demonstrated ability to convert client delivery patterns into reusable platforms/tools/frameworks/open-source libraries
  • deep expertise in production AI architectures (RAG pipelines, multi-step agentic systems, evaluation frameworks, guardrails)
  • hands-on coder who writes/reviews production code
  • strong systems mindset and exceptional technical communication across technical and executive audiences

Skills

Required:software engineeringAI/ML production systemsarchitectural leadership
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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