Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI on the Cortex AI team. You will architect and deploy enterprise AI solutions, partnering with customer teams to transform business challenges into scalable, production-grade AI systems using Snowpark, Cortex, and LLM capabilities.

You will define quality metrics, build evaluation frameworks, and ensure reliability at scale while collaborating with product and engineering to shape Snowflake's AI platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Willingness to travel.
• Proven experience building applications using LLMs, especially with technologies like RAG and agentic workflows.
• Hands-on experience defining quality metrics and running evaluations for LLM or agent systems, and using evals to systematically improve quality.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with an ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a desire to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing Generative AI environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions, including sophisticated AI agents.
• Define what 'good' means for the systems you build with measurable quality metrics and evaluation frameworks.
• Rapidly design, iterate, and ship high-quality code and pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Own the full implementation lifecycle from prototype to production, including safety, observability, and human-review workflows.
• Partner directly with customer data science and engineering teams as a hands-on technical resource.

Skills

LLMs

Agentic workflows

Eval metrics

Problem solving

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

LangSmith

Arize

Weave

Promptfoo

Job description

Snowflake is seeking an Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI on the Cortex AI team. You will architect and deploy enterprise AI solutions, partnering with customer teams to transform business challenges into scalable, production-grade AI systems using Snowpark, Cortex, and LLM capabilities.

You will define quality metrics, build evaluation frameworks, and ensure reliability at scale while collaborating with product and engineering to shape Snowflake's AI platform.