Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Solutions

Snorkel AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Snorkel AI is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to research and deploy Gen AI and ML solutions for customers. You’ll translate business needs into reusable AI tooling, prototypes, and recipes, shaping Snorkel’s next generation of AI tooling.

You will work closely with customers, collaborate with pre-sales and Product teams, and contribute to internal tooling. This role involves some travel and close alignment to business outcomes.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or comparable degree/experience.
• 8+ years of customer-facing experience in the design and implementation of AI/ML solutions.
• Proficiency in Python and software engineering fundamentals with ML tooling experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to build and deploy Gen AI/ML solutions from scoping to deployment.
• Develop state-of-the-art AI systems including RAG and fine-tuning pipelines.
• Create augmented datasets and evaluation workflows to ensure reliability and trust.
• Collaborate with pre-sales and Product to map needs to capabilities and guide projects.

Skills

Gen AI

Python

ML Deployment

RAG

Communication

Enablement

Cloud tooling

Experimentation

Education

B.S. in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

FAISS

Ray

Airflow

LangChain

Job description

About Snorkel

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.

The Role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll research and utilize state-of-the-art Gen AI and machine learning (ML) techniques to successfully deliver solutions to our customers. You will work directly with our customers to understand their business and technical needs and design and deliver AI solutions to solve them. You will also help define Snorkel’s Applied AI tooling by translating repeatable real-world challenges into reusable solution recipes, workflows, best practices, and platform-level capabilities that become part of Snorkel’s next generation of AI tooling. We move fast and are constantly prototyping and innovating new ways to deliver value to our customers. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, bridging the gap between AI technology and business value, working directly with customers, keeping up-to date with AI research, and standardizing bespoke solutions into internal recipes and staying naturally curious about the infrastructure that underpin the Applied AI stack end-to-end.

Main Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to build and deploy impactful Gen AI and machine learning solutions, from use case scoping and data exploration to model development and deployment. This will involve designing custom approaches using state-of-the-art tools, with the goal of delivering real business value and informing the evolution of Snorkel’s tooling.


• Develop and implement state of the art AI systems such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning pipelines, prompt engineering recipes and agentic workflows.


• Create augmented real-world datasets and comprehensive evaluation workflows to ensure model reliability, transparency, and stakeholder trust. A data- and evaluation-first mindset is essential for success in this role.


• Forge and manage relationships with our customers’ leadership and stakeholders to ensure successful development and deployment of AI projects.


• Collaborate closely with pre-sales Solutions and Product teams to map customer needs to existing capabilities, prioritize roadmap gaps, and guide successful project setup.


• Work with other Applied AI Engineers to standardize solutions and contribute to internal tooling and best practices.


• Lead stakeholder education on quantitative capabilities, helping them to understand the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and what problems are best-suited for Snorkel AI.


• Serve as the voice of our customers for new AI paradigms, data science workflows, and share customer feedback to product teams.


• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many enablement workshops to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using Snorkel AI.


• Annual travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or comparable degree/experience.


• 8+ years of customer-facing experience in the design and implementation of AI/ML solutions.


• Proficiency in Python, including strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals (e.g., modular design, testing, profiling, packaging) and experience with modern Python constructs and libraries for type validation and typed data modeling (e.g., pydantic), building type-safe systems (e.g., mypy), testing (e.g., pytest), packaging and environment configuration (e.g., poetry), API and service frameworks (e.g., FastAPI), serialization and structured data handling (e.g., msgspec), and orchestration tooling relevant to ML deployment (e.g., Ray, Airflow).


• Expertise across the Applied AI stack, spanning classical ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn), deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), foundation-model ecosystems (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers), vector/embedding tooling (e.g., FAISS), data processing frameworks (e.g., pandas, Spark), retrieval/RAG tooling (e.g., Chroma, Weaviate), synthetic dataset curation, evaluation workflows, and LLM orchestration, workflow, agent authoring tools (e.g., LlamaIndex, LangGraph, CrewAI).


• Experience leading strategic, customer-facing initiatives and collaborating with business stakeholders to ensure ML solutions drive successful business outcomes, with a strong focus on teaching and enablement.


• Outstanding presentation skills to technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.


• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and balance priorities across multiple projects at once.

Compensation range for Tier 1 locations of San Francisco Bay Area $230K - $360K OTE. All offers also include equity. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role

$230,000—$360,000 USD

Locations

San Francisco, CA - Hybrid - US; New York, NY - Hybrid

Be Your Best at Snorkel

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.