Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI

Highlights

• Own end-to-end enterprise AI programs for Snowflake's most strategic customers.
• Define what good means for agents and hill-climb quality via eval loops.
• Turn field patterns into reusable architectures shaping Cortex AI platform.

Ideal candidate

AI-native, low-ego technical leader who thrives in ambiguity and loves partnering onsite with customers to ship trustworthy production AI while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or teams, including setting technical direction and driving delivery to completion
• Proven experience building and productionizing applications using LLMs
• Strong communication skills with ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and executive stakeholders
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to independently structure complex open-ended problems
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role
• Willingness to travel, including at least 25% onsite with customers in the USA