Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI

About the role

Snowflake is building a high‑impact team to help the world’s most innovative companies unlock the power of AI. As a Forward Deployed Engineer in the Cortex AI team, you will be a hands‑on builder and a critical technical partner to strategic customers, deploying cutting‑edge AI solutions at massive scale.

Key responsibilities

• Drive Customer Impact: architect, build and deploy enterprise‑grade AI solutions, including sophisticated AI agents.
• Deliver with Velocity: rapidly design, iterate and ship high‑quality code and ML pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Productionize AI at Scale: own the full lifecycle from prototype to deployment, monitoring and optimization in secure large‑scale environments.
• Be a Strategic Technical Advisor: partner directly with customer data‑science and engineering teams as a trusted AI expert.
• Ensure Operational Excellence: implement rigorous data validation, maintain SLA observability and manage system interdependencies.
• Collaborate to Innovate: work cross‑functionally with Snowflake product and engineering teams, feeding real‑world feedback into the AI platform.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands‑on experience building and shipping LLM‑based or ML applications.
• Proven experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT development and performance tuning.
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills.

Required skills

• Python, Java, C++
• SQL
• Data modeling and ETL/ELT
• Performance tuning
• MLOps lifecycle (model deployment, monitoring, evaluation)
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Large language models (LLM), Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic workflows
• Data warehousing principles and architecture