Staff/Principal AI Software Engineer - Snowflake CoWork

What this role involves

Snowflake is seeking a Staff/Principal AI Software Engineer for the Cortex CoWork team to define the technical vision for AI initiatives, focusing on agentic reasoning, NL-to-SQL, and enterprise-scale RAG. The role involves leading architectural design, building reliability infrastructure, and mentoring engineers. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years leading LLM-based applications at scale.

Skills this posting asks for

• llm orchestration
• prompt optimization
• semantic modeling
• guardrails
• nl-to-sql
• rag
• multi-agent systems
• tool-use frameworks
• function calling
• semantic layer integration
• sql
• retrieval systems
• python
• software engineering
• ai
• machine learning
• distributed systems
• cloud computing
• data engineering
• architecture design

Requirements

• 10 years of experience
• Level: principal

From the employer’s posting

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 collabor…