Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
Snowflake · US-CA-Menlo Park
About this role
## Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI (Snowflake) At Snowflake, we’re powering the era of the agentic enterprise. We’re looking for AI-native thinkers who treat AI as a high-trust collaborator—curious, experimental, and energized by reinventing how work gets done. As a **Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI** on our **Cortex AI** team, you’ll be a hands-on builder and a key technical partner to strategic customers—deploying production-grade AI systems to solve real business problems at scale using **Snowpark, Cortex, and native LLM capabilities**. --- ### In this role, you will: - **Build Customer Solutions:** Architect, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions, including sophisticated AI agents. Own the end-to-end lifecycle—from prototype to production. - **Own the Quality of What You Ship:** Define what “good” means. Translate ambiguous goals into measurable quality metrics, evaluation frameworks, and golden datasets. Run systematic eval loops to improve agent quality and catch regressions early (accuracy, faithfulness, safety). - **Deliver with Velocity:** Rapidly design, iterate, and ship high-quality code and pipelines. Use **Python** and **SQL** to build scalable, performant solutions. - **Productionize AI at Scale:** Own implementation through deployment, monitoring, and optimization in secure, large-scale environments. Build safety guardrails, observability, and human-review workflows. Feed production traces and user feedback back into evals so quality compounds over time. - **Be a Technical Partner:** Partner directly with customer data science and engineering teams as a hands-on resource and trusted advisor. - **Collaborate to Innovate:** Work cross-functionally with Snowflake Product and Engineering teams, sharing field feedback to influence the AI platform. - **Travel:** Spend **at least 25%** of your time onsite with strategic customers. --- ### Minimum qualifications: - **Bachelor’s degree** in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience) - **3+ years** of professional software engineering experience - **Willingness to travel** - Proven experience building applications using **LLMs** (details continue in the source text)
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