Staff Research Scientist, Agentic AI & LLMs

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 339,200; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is a data‑cloud company seeking a Staff Research Scientist to define roadmaps and build enterprise AI systems that turn data into autonomous agents. You will help advance state‑of‑the‑art models and production systems at the frontier of enterprise AI.

At the intersection of autonomous agents and LLMs, you will develop Arctic LLM, Arctic‑Text2SQL, Snowflake Intelligence, and Arctic Inference. You will publish, mentor, and drive impactful innovations across the platform.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or related field with a strong publication record.
• Expertise in LLM development (training, fine‑tuning, alignment, or post‑training).
• Experience with agentic systems (multi‑agent systems, tool use, or agent optimization).
• Strong systems thinking under real‑world constraints (latency, cost, reliability).
• Proven technical leadership and end‑to‑end ownership.
• Ability to translate research into impactful systems.

Responsibilities

• Define research direction in Agentic AI and LLMs.
• Develop models: train, fine‑tune, and align models for enterprise reasoning and tool use.
• Advance autonomous agents: drive state‑of‑the‑art capabilities in multi‑step reasoning and tool use.
• Advance the stack: retrieval, grounding, memory, and multi‑agent coordination.
• Establish evaluation standards for reliability, safety, and efficiency.
• Drive research breakthroughs into production within Snowflake's platform.
• Mentor and lead to amplify the team's technical impact.
• Contribute to the field through publications and open source.

Skills

LLM development

Agentic systems

Systems thinking

Technical leadership

Research-to-production

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Snowflake is a data‑cloud company seeking a Staff Research Scientist to define roadmaps and build enterprise AI systems that turn data into autonomous agents. You will help advance state‑of‑the‑art models and production systems at the frontier of enterprise AI.

At the intersection of autonomous agents and LLMs, you will develop Arctic LLM, Arctic‑Text2SQL, Snowflake Intelligence, and Arctic Inference. You will publish, mentor, and drive impactful innovations across the platform.