Senior AI Deployment Architect — Forward-Deployed

Jobtailor; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an experienced AI Leader to own and deliver large-scale AI engagements from scoping through deployment, monitoring, and handoff. You will mentor a team of Applied AI Engineers, design ML pipelines, and build agentic workflows with strong emphasis on safety, observability, and data security.

Expect frequent collaboration with customers and product teams. Travel to customer sites will be required, with substantial onsite time to drive strategies and ensure successful

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical projects or teams and driving delivery to completion.
• Productionizing applications using LLMs, including RAG and agentic workflows.
• Defining quality metrics and evaluation frameworks for LLM or agent systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills to explain complex concepts to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to structure and execute open-ended problems.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role and willingness to travel.
• Familiarity with eval and observability tools like Braintrust, LangSmith, Arize, Weave, or Promptfoo.
• Hands-on experience with MLOps lifecycle: model deployment, monitoring, and evaluation in AWS/Azure/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of AI engagements from scoping to deployment.
• Lead and mentor a team of Applied AI Engineers; review designs and code.
• Design, iterate, and ship ML pipelines and agentic AI solutions.
• Translate business objectives into robust, scalable AI solutions.
• Build safety guardrails, observability, and human-review workflows.

Skills

AI Project Leadership

LLM Application Development

MLOps Lifecycle Management

Quality Metrics Definition

Customer-Facing Technical Experience

Productionization

Software Engineering

Technical Project Leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Braintrust

LangSmith

Arize

Weave

Promptfoo

Pandas

Job description

Snowflake is seeking an experienced AI Leader to own and deliver large-scale AI engagements from scoping through deployment, monitoring, and handoff. You will mentor a team of Applied AI Engineers, design ML pipelines, and build agentic workflows with strong emphasis on safety, observability, and data security.

Expect frequent collaboration with customers and product teams. Travel to customer sites will be required, with substantial onsite time to drive strategies and ensure successful