Senior Software Engineer - Cortex Apps (LLM Products)

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of AI Data Cloud technology. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI research and enterprise-grade software development. You'll tackle unique challenges in LLM-based systems, enhancing how businesses interact with their data. Your contributions will directly influence product reliability and accuracy, ensuring that insights are accessible and actionable. Be part of a dynamic team dedicated to innovation and excellence, where your skills will help shape the future of data interaction.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending & health savings account

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

At least 12 paid holidays

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing quality evaluation frameworks for LLM-based systems.
• Creating innovative prompt engineering solutions to improve accuracy and reliability.

Skills

Python

Go

SQL

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree

Job description

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud trusted by the world's most innovative companies. Our Cortex Apps team is building technology that makes high quality data analysis accessible to everyone through natural language. We're transforming how people interact with their data, eliminating technical barriers, and democratizing insights.

Our suite of products enables users to search and analyze their data and build sophisticated AI agents that can reason through complex problems automatically. We're not just implementing academic research - we're shipping production-ready AI applications at scale.

About the Role:

You will work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and enterprise-grade software development. You will solve novel challenges in LLM-based systems while ensuring our products remain reliable, accurate, and valuable to customers.

Your work will directly impact how businesses understand and leverage their data. You might focus on improving our natural language to SQL conversion, enhancing search relevance, or developing more reliable agent frameworks that can consistently solve complex tasks. You will ship.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and implementing quality evaluation frameworks for LLM-based systems

• Creating innovative prompt engineering solutions to improve accuracy and reliability

• Conducting experiments to continuously improve our metrics and system performance

• Building robust systems that can handle the unpredictability of natural language

• Collaborating with infrastructure teams to productionize improvements

• Investigating customer-reported issues and turning them into product enhancements

• Developing frameworks that balance powerful AI capabilities with appropriate guardrails
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field. Master's degree preferred.

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

• (For Cortex Analyst) Proficiency with writing SQL

• (For Cortex Analyst) Experience working with semantic layers, prior experience as a data scientist/data analyst, and with BI tools, are a plus.
  

Join us in building the future of how businesses will interact with their data through our flagship Cortex products. With Cortex Search, you'll enable lightning-fast, intelligent search across massive datasets. Through Cortex Analyst, you'll help users get direct answers to business questions. And with Cortex Agents, you'll build AI assistants that combine reasoning with direct access to enterprise data. Together, these products form the backbone of Snowflake's vision for the future of data interaction.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.