Frontier AI Engineer: Build & Deploy Enterprise Solutions

Snowflake; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is building a high-impact Frontier Engineering team to accelerate enterprise AI, seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer to work with strategic customers on production-grade AI systems using Snowpark and Cortex.

You will own end-to-end solutions, collaborate with data science and engineering teams, and travel up to 25% onsite with customers, shaping the future of Snowflake's AI platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering.
• At least 3 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with LLMs and agentic workflows.
• Ability to define quality metrics and run evaluations.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions including AI agents.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle from prototype to production.
• Define quality metrics and evaluation frameworks.
• Design and ship high-quality code and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with customers and Snowflake teams.

Skills

LLMs

RAG workflows

Agentic AI

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

Travel willing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Braintrust

LangSmith

Arize

Weave

Promptfoo

Snowpark

Job description

Snowflake is building a high-impact Frontier Engineering team to accelerate enterprise AI, seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Engineer to work with strategic customers on production-grade AI systems using Snowpark and Cortex.

You will own end-to-end solutions, collaborate with data science and engineering teams, and travel up to 25% onsite with customers, shaping the future of Snowflake's AI platform.