Principal AI Engineer for Enterprise Data CoWork

Fdetimes; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is redefining how enterprises interact with data through AI-powered CoWork. As Principal AI Engineer, you will set the technical direction for multi-agent systems, self-correcting NL-to-SQL engines, and robust tool-use frameworks at scale.

You will partner with Product and Engineering to align AI capabilities with business goals, ensuring high reliability and performance across Fortune 500 deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years leading LLM deployments at scale.
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, AI, or related field as stated in the ad.
• Deep hands-on understanding of LLM orchestration and prompt optimization.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term technical vision for multi-agent systems and tool-use frameworks.
• Build automated, scalable evaluation and reliability for LLM performance.
• Bridge Research and Production teams to scale latest LLM breakthroughs.
• Design extensible context engineering patterns and API integrations.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead cross-functional project teams.

Skills

LLM orchestration

Prompt optimization

Semantic modeling

Guardrails for non-deterministic AI

Multi-agent systems design

NL-to-SQL

Infrastructure for AI systems

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/AI or related field

Master’s or PhD in related field

Tools

SQL

Retrieval Systems

Semantic Layers

Job description

Snowflake is redefining how enterprises interact with data through AI-powered CoWork. As Principal AI Engineer, you will set the technical direction for multi-agent systems, self-correcting NL-to-SQL engines, and robust tool-use frameworks at scale.

You will partner with Product and Engineering to align AI capabilities with business goals, ensuring high reliability and performance across Fortune 500 deployments.