Snowflake

Staff Applied AI Engineer (FDE)

US-CA-Menlo Park, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will lead the end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI programs as a technical leader for strategic customers. You will design and ship ML pipelines and agentic AI solutions while mentoring a team of engineers.

What you will do

  • Own the full lifecycle of complex AI engagements from scoping to deployment
  • Define quality metrics, evaluation frameworks, and golden datasets
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of 2–6 engineers
  • Design, iterate, and ship high-quality ML pipelines and agentic AI solutions
  • Implement AI solutions in secure, large-scale production environments
  • Build safety guardrails, observability, and human-review workflows
  • Serve as a senior technical advisor to customer leadership
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to shape the AI platform
  • Identify recurring deployment patterns to create reusable assets

Required qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or teams
  • Proven experience building and productionizing applications using LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows
  • Hands-on experience defining quality metrics and evaluation frameworks for LLM or agent systems
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
  • Comfort with ambiguity and executing on complex, open-ended problems
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience in a customer-facing technical role
  • Willingness to travel

Nice to have

  • Experience building eval sets from production traces and synthetic data
  • Familiarity with eval and observability tooling (e.g., Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize, Weave, Promptfoo)
  • Experience with failure-mode analysis on agent or RAG systems
  • Hands-on experience with the MLOps lifecycle in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Familiarity with core data science libraries and tools (e.g., pandas, numpy, Snowpark)
  • Startup experience or experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company seeks AI-native thinkers to help redefine the future of how work gets done.