Principal AI Systems Engineer — Scale & Innovate (Poland)

Snowflake; Zürich; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its AI team. You will design and build AI Functions and scalable distributed platforms that power the Cortex Platform across data in multi-cloud environments.

You will participate in cross-functional initiatives, collaborate with engineers and product managers, and ensure services meet reliability, availability and performance targets at scale.

Qualifications

• 14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems in production.
• Passionate about AI/ML and NLP space.
• Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products.
• Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in Python, or Java preferred)
• Knowledge of C, C++, Go is a big plus.
• Experience working with cross teams and product managers.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.

Responsibilities

• Build customer facing AI Functions portfolio of products.
• Design and implement highly scalable distributed platforms within the global Snowflake platform.
• Participate in decision-making processes on technical or business issues.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to help deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

Skills

Cross-team collaboration

Leadership

Problem solving

AI/ML enthusiasm

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related

Tools

Python

Java

C

C++

Go

Job description

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its AI team. You will design and build AI Functions and scalable distributed platforms that power the Cortex Platform across data in multi-cloud environments.

You will participate in cross-functional initiatives, collaborate with engineers and product managers, and ensure services meet reliability, availability and performance targets at scale.