Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier Engineering

What you'll do

• Set technical strategy and own outcomes across complex customer AI deployments; advise executive engineering leaders and shape multi-year roadmaps.
• Build and review production code and prototypes; define standards for AI evaluation, reliability, observability, security, and responsible deployment.
• Translate customer needs into product requirements, reusable patterns, and engineering guidance; mentor senior engineers and spend at least 25% of time onsite with customers.

What they ask for

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including a sustained track record building and shipping production AI/ML or agentic systems at enterprise scale.
• Track record advising CTOs and executive engineering leaders 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, and security.
• Hands-on technical leadership, including writing and reviewing production code, plus strong systems thinking and communication across technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience leading cross-organizational initiatives to improve enterprise AI solutions.
• Open-source AI contributions, technical publications, industry speaking, or familiarity with Cortex AI, Snowpark, or modern enterprise data infrastructure platforms.

Pay

$304K – $437K (base salary; currency not stated)

Tools

RAG, Cortex AI, Snowpark

AI focus

Build and deploy production enterprise AI/ML and agentic systems; set standards for evaluation, reliability, observability, security, guardrails, and responsible deployment.