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SnowflakeSnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Staff AI Engineer - Snowflake Intelligence

Staff AI Engineer owns end-to-end AI features for Snowflake Cortex products, including agentic workflows, NL-to-SQL, context engineering, evaluations, and team leadership. Requires 5+ years shipping production AI, proficiency in Python/Go, and bachelor's in CS or related.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site5+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Cortex products, including agentic workflows, NL-to-SQL on semantic layers, and search.
  • Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, semantic model-aware prompting for SQL, and verification/repair.
  • Design evals and hillclimb: create golden sets, rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to improve metrics.
  • Partner with product and infra teams: translate customer problems into products and experiments, collaborate to productionize improvements.
  • Lead a team of engineers towards building great products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or related field (Master’s or higher preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience shipping AI features in production.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with text2sql, data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers.

Skills

PythonGoText2SqlPrompt EngineeringAgentic WorkflowsNl-To-SqlSemantic LayersFunction CallingRetrieval SystemsData Modeling

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