Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier Engineering
Snowflake · US-CA-Menlo Park
Big Tech AIremoteprincipal$304k–$437k
At a glance
Highlights
- Embed directly with strategic customers to deploy production-grade AI systems.
- Set technical strategy and architecture across high-visibility AI deployments.
- Shape multi-year AI roadmaps as peer advisor to CTOs and engineering leaders.
Ideal candidate
AI-native, low-ego leader energized by reinventing how work gets done and shipping real enterprise impact. You thrive advising executives, setting direction through influence, and staying hands-on with ambiguous problems.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production AI/ML or agentic systems at enterprise scale
- Proven track record as trusted technical advisor to CTOs and executive engineering leaders across strategic accounts
- Experience setting technical direction across multiple strategic accounts or enterprise programs
- Hands-on leader who writes and reviews production code from executive strategy to critical technical details
- Exceptional systems thinking and technical communication across technical and executive audiences
- Willing to spend at least 25% of time onsite working with customers
Lab profile
About Snowflake
Cloud data platform for storage, analytics, data sharing, and enterprise AI workloads.
What they build
- Snowflake Data Cloud
- Data warehousing and data lakes
- Snowpark developer framework
Known for
- Elastic scalable cloud architecture
- Secure governance and data sharing
- Multi-cloud analytics and AI
Key facts
- Founded in 2012
- Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana
- Public company (NYSE: SNOW)
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