Snowflake
Staff/Principal AI Software Engineer - Snowflake CoWork
$264K–$380K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years specifically leading deployment of LLM-based applications at massive scale.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
About the job
Defines technical strategy and architecture for Snowflake Intelligence, building reliable, scalable agentic AI systems for enterprise data use cases.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture for multi-agent systems, tool-use frameworks, and NL-to-SQL engines; set long-term technical direction.
- Build automated evaluation and improvement infrastructure to measure and improve LLM performance across customer schemas.
- Partner across Product, Engineering, and Research; mentor engineers and lead high-stakes cross-functional projects.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading deployment of LLM-based applications at massive scale.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
- Expertise in LLM orchestration, prompt optimization, semantic modeling, and guardrails for non-deterministic systems.
- Proven experience designing systems integrating AI with data stacks; prior Principal-level IC role or technical leadership of a major AI product used by millions.
Pay
$264K – $379.5K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
LLM, NL-to-SQL, SQL, Retrieval Systems, Semantic Layers
AI focus
Develops agentic reasoning, NL-to-SQL, enterprise-scale RAG, multi-agent systems, and LLM reliability and evaluation capabilities.
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