# Technical Director for AI Functions

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA, Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $304k – $437k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AI Infrastructure, LLMs, large-scale query processing, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Team Leadership, Recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Lead architecture, roadmap, and engineering teams for Snowflake's AI Functions product, embedding advanced AI and LLM-powered capabilities directly into SQL for data analysis. Requires 10+ years software engineering experience, AI/LLM expertise, and prior director-level leadership managing managers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Create and own architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and identify new initiatives that push Snowflake's technology forward for our customers.
- Set the strategic vision for the team and drive accountability for plans and deliverables.
- Solve real business needs at scale by applying strong software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Drive team projects from ideation through implementation in partnership with cross-functional teams.
- Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while ensuring sound, practical decision-making.
- Lead organizational structure evolution and improve engineering efficiency.
- Hire, develop, and mentor senior technical leaders.
- Manage, grow, and mentor the teams that have a significant impact on the success of the overall Snowflake product.

## Requirements
- Advanced degree in Computer Science.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with recent hands-on experience.
- 2+ years of engineering director experience, including managing managers.
- Deep experience with AI infrastructure and LLMs.
- Experience building large-scale query processing or distributed systems.
- Strong track record of recruiting and growing technical teams.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across global organizations.

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