Snowflake
Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMs
US-WA-Bellevue +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 26, 2026
- Location
- US-WA-Bellevue
US-CA-Menlo Park - Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field
About the job
Defines research direction and develops production-ready LLMs and autonomous agents for enterprise data tasks.
What you'll do
- Train, fine-tune, and align models for enterprise reasoning and tool use; advance multi-step reasoning and agent capabilities.
- Improve retrieval, grounding, memory, and multi-agent coordination, and establish reliability, safety, and efficiency evaluations.
- Bring research into production, mentor and lead the team, and contribute through publications and open source.
What they ask for
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field with a strong publication record.
- Expertise in LLM development, including training, fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training.
- Experience with agentic systems, such as multi-agent systems, tool use, or agent optimization.
- Proven technical leadership and end-to-end ownership; ability to translate research into impactful systems and reason about real-world constraints.
Tools
LLMs, Arctic LLM, Arctic-Text2SQL, Snowflake Intelligence, Arctic Inference, Shift Parallelism, SwiftKV, H200 GPU
AI focus
Research and develop enterprise LLMs and autonomous agents, including reasoning, planning, tool use, grounding, and multi-agent coordination; deploy research in production.
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