Snowflake

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer I, Frontier Engineering

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6 days ago
Menlo Park, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$264k - $380k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build peer-level relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data and AI at strategic customer accounts.
  • Lead architectural steering, technical reviews, and executive strategy alignment for customer AI roadmaps.
  • Own end-to-end technical execution and outcomes across complex enterprise AI deployments.
  • Write production code and working prototypes, review designs and code, and establish engineering standards.
  • Lead the measurement and improvement of AI quality by defining clear, testable evaluation standards.
  • Mentor Senior and Staff engineers and drive complex technical initiatives with cross-functional leaders.
  • Convert customer and field-delivery patterns into reusable platforms, tools, frameworks, or open-source libraries.
  • Spend at least 25% of working time onsite at customer locations.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building and shipping production AI/ML or agentic systems at enterprise scale.
  • Proven experience advising CTOs and executive engineering leaders at large enterprises.
  • Deep expertise in production AI architectures, including RAG pipelines, multi-step agentic systems, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails.
  • Hands-on production coding and code-review experience with a strong systems mindset.
  • Exceptional technical communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.
  • Experience shipping features into a commercial data or AI platform is a bonus.
  • Active contributions to open-source AI frameworks, technical publications, or industry speaking engagements are a bonus.
  • Familiarity with Cortex AI, Snowpark, or modern enterprise data infrastructure platforms is a bonus.

Benefits

  • The role requires spending at least 25% of time onsite with customers.
  • Salary and benefits information is provided through the Snowflake Careers Site for jobs located in the United States.

Tech Stack

Snowflake

Categories

Forward Deployed
Snowflake

About Snowflake

10,000+ employees

Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.

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