Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML

Snowflake; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML to lead high-stakes migrations, define reusable patterns, and guide enterprise AI workloads. You will act as a North Star for technical design, bridging business strategy with AI execution across global initiatives.

The role demands deep expertise in AI/ML, architectural leadership, and the ability to influence regional and global practice strategy while delivering measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Typically requires 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's; or 8 years with a Master's.
• Expert reputation in the AI/ML community and the Snowflake ecosystem.
• Visionary thinker able to influence regional practice strategy and create regional frameworks.
• Proven adoption of authored assets and performance in strategic accounts.
• Strong executive communication to explain AI/ML concepts and ROI.

Responsibilities

• Develop reusable solution patterns and global architectures.
• Modernize legacy stacks into Snowflake AI workloads with deep architecture knowledge.
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders.
• Address LLM robustness, safety, and latency at enterprise scale.
• Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs, balancing safety and performance.
• Facilitate high-complexity data migrations from on-prem to AI-ready cloud environments.
• Set technical approaches for assignments with global design impact.

Skills

Executive communication

AI/ML leadership

Strategic influence

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Snowflake Cortex

LLM frameworks

Data migration architectures

Job description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn’t just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML

LEAD. STRATEGIZE. TRANSFORM.

SUMMARY:

Recognized expert and strategic technical advisor resolving critical, wide-ranging design matters for legacy modernization and Generative AI.

WHY THIS ROLE?

You act as the technical “North Star” for high-stakes migrations. You exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments with high business impact.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop reusable solution patterns, global reference architectures, and practice-wide white papers.

• Modernize legacy stacks (Netezza, Teradata, Exadata) into Snowflake AI workloads using deep architectural knowledge.

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution.

• Solve for LLM robustness, including managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale.

• Gen AI Robustness: Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs, ensuring safety and performance.

• Legacy Transformation: Facilitate high-complexity data migrations from on-prem legacy systems into AI-ready cloud environments.

• Strategic Risk Management: Determine technical approaches for assignments that impact regional or global design success.

SNOWFLAKE-NATIVE TECH STACK:

Vector Data Types, Snowflake Cortex, Advanced LLM Frameworks, Global Asset Creation.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• Typically requires 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s; or 8 years with a Master’s.

• Expert reputation in the AI/ML community and the Snowflake ecosystem.

• Visionary thinker with the ability to influence regional practice strategy and create regional frameworks.

• Adoption rate of authored assets; Performance in “must-win” strategic accounts; Regional practice influence.

• Strong executive communication: Ability to present complex AI/ML concepts and ROI to technical and business audiences.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?