Staff Applied AI Engineer - Pre-Sales
Snorkel AI16 hours ago
Base Salary
$190k - $330k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Sales and AI Solution Practice Leaders to shape technical strategy, win technical evaluations, and support post-sales handoffs.
- Lead technical discovery covering business objectives, success criteria, data landscapes, architecture, security, and organizational readiness.
- Design GenAI solution architectures and build tailored demos and pilots for customer use cases.
- Develop evaluation pipelines, dataset strategies, retrieval-augmented generation systems, fine-tuning workflows, prompt engineering approaches, and agentic architectures.
- Create proposals, Statements of Work, and RFP/RFI responses with clear scope, realistic estimates, and technically sound designs.
- Capture reusable patterns as reference architectures, benchmarks, demo assets, and internal solution playbooks.
- Travel up to 25% annually.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math/Statistics, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as pre-sales, solutions engineering, or applied AI.
- Hands-on Python experience and familiarity with LLM ecosystems, RAG, vector databases, data processing, synthetic dataset curation, evaluation workflows, LLM orchestration, and agent authoring tools.
- Expertise with classical machine learning and data processing frameworks such as scikit-learn, pandas, and Spark.
- Ability to rapidly prototype ML solutions, RAG systems, prompt-based workflows, fine-tuned models, and agentic systems.
- Ability to convert ambiguous business problems into testable technical approaches and measurable success criteria.
- Strong presentation and storytelling skills for technical and executive audiences.
- Experience estimating scope and producing technical content for proposals and Statements of Work.
Benefits
- Employee stock options are included with all offers.
- The company offers opportunities for career growth, learning, expanded responsibilities, and participation in strategic decisions.
- Annual travel is up to 25%.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI builds tools and services for developing high-quality training, post-training, and evaluation data for LLMs and enterprise AI systems. It sells an enterprise platform plus expert-built datasets and benchmarks, and offers custom data development for AI labs, large enterprises, and federal customers. Founded in 2019 out of the Stanford AI Lab and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.