Director of Engineering, AI Functions

The role

This Director of Engineering is a hybrid director/principal engineer role within the AI Functions product portfolio. You will lead the team in surfacing AI functions in SQL to analyze structured and unstructured data.

What you will do

• Create and own architecture and design
• Influence the product roadmap and identify new initiatives
• Set the strategic vision for the team and drive accountability
• Solve real business needs at scale using software engineering and analytical skills
• Drive team projects from ideation through implementation with cross-functional teams
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation
• Lead organizational structure evolution and improve engineering efficiency
• Hire, develop, and mentor senior technical leaders
• Manage, grow, and mentor teams

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with recent hands-on experience
• 2+ years of engineering director experience, including managing managers
• Deep experience with AI infrastructure and LLMs
• Experience building large-scale query processing or distributed systems
• Strong track record of recruiting and growing technical teams
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across global organizations

About the company

Snowflake is a company powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.