Software Engineer, Cortex AI Infrastructure
Posted May 20, 2026
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. The Cortex Apps team is building the future of AI for enterprise data, and this role focuses on the backend infrastructure that powers our flagship products like Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex
Agents, and Search. You won't just be using AI tools; you will be building the high-performance systems that orchestrate them, making agentic AI fast, reliable, scalable, and secure at the enterprise level. What you will do in this role:
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Build Agentic Runtimes: Help build and scale the orchestration engines that execute complex agentic workflows, ensuring low-latency tool execution and robust state management. - Scale Context Engineering Infra: Develop and design high-performance systems for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), including vector database integration, scalable search indexing, query processing, and semantic caching. - Build the automated infrastructure required to run massive-scale golden set simulations, error analysis pipelines, and experiments. - Collaborate with the modeling team to take raw LLM capabilities and turn them into hardened, multi-tenant microservices with strict guardrails and observability. - Implement system optimizations for model routing, prompt caching, and token optimization to ensure maximum efficiency.