Staff Applied AI Engineer (FDE)

As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI on our Cortex AI team, you will be a hands-on technical leader and trusted partner to our most strategic customers. You will own the end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI programs, leading a team of 2–4 engineers while staying deeply technical yourself . You will set the technical direction for your customer engagements, mentor your team, and serve as the senior technical voice at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success.

What you'll do:

• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or teams, including setting technical direction, reviewing others' work, and driving delivery to completion.
• Proven experience building and productionizing applications using LLMs, especially with technologies like RAG and agentic workflows.
• Hands-on experience defining quality metrics and evaluation frameworks for LLM or agent systems, and using evals to systematically improve quality over time.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with an ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to independently structure and execute on complex, open-ended problems.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Full details and application on the official Snowflake careers page.