Snowflake

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI

US-CA-Menlo Park. Posted 16 days ago

The role

You will lead the end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI programs as a technical leader for strategic customers. You will manage a team of engineers to design, deploy, and monitor ML pipelines and agentic AI solutions.

What you will do

  • Own the full lifecycle of complex AI engagements from scoping to deployment.
  • Define quality metrics, evaluation frameworks, and golden datasets.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of 2-6 Applied AI Engineers.
  • Design, iterate, and ship high-quality ML pipelines and agentic AI solutions.
  • Implement AI solutions in secure, large-scale production environments.
  • Build safety guardrails, observability, and human-review workflows.
  • Serve as a senior technical advisor to customer data science and engineering leadership.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to shape the Snowflake AI platform.
  • Identify recurring deployment patterns to create reusable assets.

Required qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or teams.
  • Proven experience building and productionizing applications using LLMs, including RAG and agentic workflows.
  • Hands-on experience defining quality metrics and evaluation frameworks for LLM or agent systems.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and executing on complex, open-ended problems.
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Experience in a customer-facing technical role.
  • Willingness to travel.

Nice to have

  • Experience building eval sets from production traces and synthetic data.
  • Familiarity with eval and observability tooling (e.g., Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize, Weave, Promptfoo).
  • Experience with failure-mode analysis on agent or RAG systems.
  • Hands-on experience with the MLOps lifecycle in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Familiarity with core data science libraries and tools (e.g., pandas, numpy, Snowpark).
  • Startup experience or experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company seeks AI-native thinkers to help redefine the future of how work gets done.