Senior AI Engineer – Cortex Code

Snowflake

Senior AI Engineer owning full AI engineering lifecycle for Snowflake's Cortex Code products. Collaborating with elite teams and building enterprise-grade AI features.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeMenlo Park • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $128,000 - $184,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowGoPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Cortex Code products. Build agentic workflows, coding harnesses, evaluation pipelines.
Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, agent teams, and verification/repair.
Design evals and hillclimb : create golden sets, create rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to hill climb on the metrics.
Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to productionize improvements.
Work with an elite team of engineers towards building great products

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred but not a requirement.
5+ years of experience shipping AI features in production.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Typescript, Go.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
(Optional) Experience working with data engineering pipelines (dbt, airflow), data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers is a plus.
Nice to have: Deep experience with agentic coding tools (e.g. IDE agents, CLI agents) and intuition for model strengths, failure modes, and prompting limits.
Background in data engineering (dbt, Airflow), data modeling, analytics, retrieval / RAG, or semantic layers — highly relevant for data-centric coding agents.
Prior work on eval harnesses, LLM observability, or safety / guardrails in production.
You may be a particularly good fit if you:
Have built and owned complex systems — pipelines, orchestration, or software with substantial state, branching logic, and operational requirements.
Thrive in high-intensity environments with short feedback loops and high standards for rigor.
Take problems to completion independently: you don’t stop at a prototype; you care about production reliability and clear metrics.
Are a power user of modern coding agents and care about turning that intuition into systematic measurement and improvement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTypescriptGodata engineeringdata modelingdata analysisretrieval systemssemantic layerseval harnessesLLM observability

Soft Skills

strong communication skillscollaborationindependenceproblem-solvinghigh standards for rigorability to thrive in high-intensity environmentstaking problems to completion

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Statistics