Senior Applied AI Engineer

Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or teams, including setting technical direction, reviewing others' work, and driving delivery to completion. - Proven experience building and productionizing applications using LLMs, especially with technologies like RAG and agentic workflows. - Hands-on experience defining quality metrics and evaluation frameworks for LLM or agent systems, and using evals to systematically improve quality over time. - Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with an ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders. - Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to independently structure and execute on complex, open-ended problems. - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. - Experience in a customer-facing technical role. - Willingness to travel. ### Preferred Qualifications

Experience building eval sets from production traces and synthetic data, and running structured experimentation (A/B tests, ablations, offline evals) to compare prompts, models, or agent architectures. - Familiarity with eval and observability tooling (e.g., Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize, Weave, Promptfoo) or experience building custom eval harnesses. - Experience with failure-mode analysis on agent or RAG systems – categorizing errors (hallucination, retrieval miss, planning failure, tool misuse) and driving each down with targeted evals. - Hands-on experience with the MLOps lifecycle, including model deployment, monitoring, and evaluation in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP). - Familiarity with core data science libraries and tools (e.g., pandas, numpy, Snowpark). - Startup experience or experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com