Snowflake

Snowflake

Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier Engineering

US-CA-Menlo Park · Principal

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SnowflakeMachine LearningRAGAgentic AILeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

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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 serving as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs and executive engineering leaders at large enterprises, and setting technical direction across multiple strategic accounts or enterprise programs.
  • Deep expertise in production AI architectures-including RAG pipelines, multi-step agentic systems, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, observability, security, and operating models for enterprise-scale adoption.
  • Hands-on technical leader who writes and reviews production code, stays close to implementation, and can move from executive strategy to the critical technical details that determine whether a system succeeds.
  • 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 II for our Frontier Engineering team.
  • At the IC6 level, you also define the reusable architectures, engineering standards, and product feedback loops that allow these solutions to scale across customers.

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