Lead Frontend AI Engineer: Build Next-Gen Coding Agents UI

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Frontend AI Principal Engineer to lead the design and delivery of cutting-edge data-focused UI experiences. You will define architectural direction for the CoCo coding agent platform and champion polished, scalable interfaces across regions.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and shipping world-class web experiences that empower users to interact with data more effectively.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product web UI application development.
• Experience with agentic systems and/or coding agent.
• Experience with Agentic SDLC – Building and deploying rich experiences with agents.
• Experience contributing to interactive dashboards and visualization platforms and/or rich data visualization.
• Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
• Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance and scale.
• Experience with the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies, release and version control, testing methodologies, and deployment management.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and build exceptional experiences, ensuring the highest level of polish, creativity, and interaction to solve complex customer problems.
• Define the architectural vision for the CoCo coding agent platform and ensure consistency of design abstractions across the entire product surface.
• Develop innovative platform offerings with a global mindset and to operate across regional boundaries.
• Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design and product management.
• Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as data sharing, cloud infrastructure, and cross-region replication.
• Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
• Motivate others to act, creating a compelling vision for the future and communicating clearly.
• Build for scale and high performance.

Skills

Web UI Development

Architectural leadership

Agentic systems

Distributed systems

API design

Performance & scale

Leadership

Electron / VS Code

Tools

Electron

VS Code

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Frontend AI Principal Engineer to lead the design and delivery of cutting-edge data-focused UI experiences. You will define architectural direction for the CoCo coding agent platform and champion polished, scalable interfaces across regions.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and shipping world-class web experiences that empower users to interact with data more effectively.