# Staff AI Engineer - Snowflake Intelligence

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Text2Sql, Prompt Engineering, Agentic Workflows, Nl-To-Sql, Semantic Layers, Function Calling, Retrieval Systems, Data Modeling
**Posted:** 2025-03-25

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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