New Grad AI Research Scientist: Autonomous Agents & RL

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an AI Research Scientist (New Grad) to join its AI Research team in Bellevue, Washington. The ideal candidate will develop autonomous AI systems, leverage their expertise in reinforcement learning, and contribute to agentic frameworks.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on real-world applications and impact how enterprises utilize intelligent automation. Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent research experience.

Qualifications

• Foundational expertise in reinforcement learning algorithms, including RLHF, DPO, PPO.
• Research experience in LLM post‑training, fine‑tuning, or reasoning model development.
• Demonstrated ability to implement and experiment with agentic architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop agentic frameworks powered by recursive self‑improvement loops.
• Build and evaluate autonomous research agents capable of formulating hypotheses.
• Develop coding agents that understand, generate, and debug code across tasks.

Skills

Reinforcement learning algorithms

Python

Deep learning frameworks

Mathematical analysis

Agentic architectures

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Snowflake is seeking an AI Research Scientist (New Grad) to join its AI Research team in Bellevue, Washington. The ideal candidate will develop autonomous AI systems, leverage their expertise in reinforcement learning, and contribute to agentic frameworks.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on real-world applications and impact how enterprises utilize intelligent automation. Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent research experience.