Principal AI Frontline Deployment Engineer

Fdetimes; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for our Frontier Engineering team. You will work directly with Snowflake’s strategic customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems, setting technical direction and driving high-stakes AI engagements.

As the senior technical counterpart to CTOs and enterprise architects, you will mentor engineers, define architectures, and maintain hands-on involvement in code and prototyping while traveling to customer sites as needed.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building and shipping production AI/ML or agentic systems at enterprise scale.
• Proven track record as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs and engineering leaders.
• Deep expertise in production AI architectures including RAG pipelines and agentic systems.
• Hands-on contributor who writes and reviews production code.
• Strong technical communication across technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Be the trusted technical partner to customer engineering leadership and executive strategy.
• Own end-to-end technical execution across high-visibility AI engagements.
• Stay hands-on with production code and prototypes.
• Lead how AI quality is measured and improved for customer programs.
• Provide mentorship to senior and staff engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Spend at least 25% of time onsite with customers.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML systems

Technical leadership

Code reviews

Communication

Enterprise-scale

Job description

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer for our Frontier Engineering team. You will work directly with Snowflake’s strategic customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems, setting technical direction and driving high-stakes AI engagements.

As the senior technical counterpart to CTOs and enterprise architects, you will mentor engineers, define architectures, and maintain hands-on involvement in code and prototyping while traveling to customer sites as needed.