Snowflake
Staff Applied AI Engineer (FDE)
US-CA-Menlo Park +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- US-CA-Menlo Park
US-WA-Bellevue - Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Leads customer-facing enterprise AI programs, guiding engineers while designing, building, evaluating, and productionizing LLM and agentic AI solutions.
What you'll do
- Own customer engagement delivery from scoping and architecture through deployment, monitoring, and handoff; lead and mentor engineers.
- Define AI quality metrics and evaluation frameworks, and improve production AI systems using evaluations, monitoring, and feedback.
- Advise customer leaders, collaborate with Snowflake product and engineering teams, and develop reusable implementation assets.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or teams, setting direction, reviewing work, and delivering outcomes.
- Experience building and productionizing LLM applications, particularly using RAG and agentic workflows.
- Hands-on experience defining quality metrics and evaluation frameworks for LLM or agent systems.
- Experience in a customer-facing technical role; willingness to travel.
Nice to have
- Experience with eval and observability tooling or custom evaluation harnesses.
- MLOps experience in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Tools
LLMs, RAG, Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize, Weave, Promptfoo, Snowpark
AI focus
Build and productionize LLM and agentic AI applications; define and run evaluations, improve AI quality, and implement safety guardrails, observability, and human-review workflows.
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