Principal Forward Deployed Engineer II, Frontier Engineering

We are hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer II for our Frontier Engineering team. This team embeds directly with Snowflake's most strategic customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems . At the IC6 level, you serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for a portfolio of high-impact customer engagements. You operate as a peer technical advisor to CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data and AI, setting technical direction that extends beyond individual accounts and influences how Snowflake delivers AI solutions at scale.

What you'll do:

• Serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for customer engineering leadership: Build durable, peer-level relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data and AI at Snowflake’s most strategic accounts. Lead architectural steering, technical revie
• Drive Architecture and Technical Strategy Across a Portfolio of High-Stakes Deployments: Set the technical strategy, architecture, and execution model across multiple complex, high-visibility AI engagements. Own end-to-end outcomes, arbitrate the most difficult cross-system tradeoffs, and establish
• Influence Snowflake Product Direction: Translate recurring customer needs and deployment learnings into clear product requirements, partner with Product and Engineering leaders, and drive adoption of capabilities that improve outcomes across the field.
• Stay hands-on and set the engineering bar: Write production code and working prototypes on the most critical or ambiguous parts of customer programs, review designs and code, and demonstrate the technical depth and judgment expected across the organization.
• Set the AI quality and reliability bar: Define organization-level standards for evaluation, observability, reliability, security, guardrails, and responsible deployment. Turn ambiguous customer goals into clear, testable measures and ensure those standards are applied consistently across engagements
• Provide technical leadership and develop senior technical talent: Mentor Principal, Staff, and Senior engineers; develop technical leads; raise engineering standards across the organization; and lead through influence across Engineering, Product, Sales, and other cross-functional teams.

Full details and application on the official Snowflake careers page.