Snowflake

Snowflake

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer I, Frontier Engineering

US-CA-Menlo Park · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
SnowflakeMachine LearningRAGAgentic AILeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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About the role

  • To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.
  • You don't just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
  • At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Nice to have

  • Proven track record as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs and executive engineering leaders at large enterprises.
  • Demonstrated success converting client/field delivery patterns into reusable platforms, tools, frameworks, or open-source libraries.
  • Deep expertise in production AI architectures-including RAG pipelines, multi-step agentic systems, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails.
  • Hands-on builder who writes and reviews production code and stays close to implementation.
  • Strong systems mindset with exceptional technical communication skills across both deeply technical and executive audiences.
  • Experience shipping features into a commercial data or AI platform, based on customer requirements.
  • Active contributions to open-source AI frameworks, technical publications, or industry speaking engagements.
  • Familiarity with Cortex AI, Snowpark, or modern enterprise data infrastructure platforms.

Compensation

  • For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com

Company info

  • At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
  • We are hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for our Frontier Engineering team.
  • At the Principal level, you are the senior technical counterpart to CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and chief architects at our largest enterprise customers; you set the technical direction that the Frontier Engineering organization follows.
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