Snap currently has 8 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on serving infrastructure, accounting for 38% of the openings, followed by application and post-training stages, each representing 25%. Engineering is the most frequent function for these positions. The company is hiring for these roles in the United States and Austria. Frequent technology tags include model_serving, inference_infra, and recommender_systems. Over the last 30 days, Snap posted 1 new AI role, an 83% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 6 active AI roles, with 56 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Serve · Engineering. Salary range $157k–$235k (avg $196k).
Snap currently has 15 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Computer Architecture Intern, Machine Learning Engineer, Generative ML , Level 5, Machine Learning Engineer, Level 4, Machine Learning Engineer, Level 5, Machine Learning Engineering Intern. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Snap's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (40%), agents (27%), serving infrastructure (20%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Snap is hiring AI talent in: United States (11 roles), United Kingdom (1 role), Australia (1 role).
Job postings at Snap most frequently mention: Ranking & Relevance, Machine Learning, Computer Architecture, TensorFlow, System Design.
In the past 30 days, Snap has posted 5 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineer, Generative ML , Level 5 Machine Learning Engineer focused on building generative AI technologies for consumer-facing experiences on mobile, web, and wearables. The role involves developing full-stack generative AI, from foundational models to inference, and creating tools and agentic systems for creative applications, with a focus on image, video, and audio generation, as well as augmented reality. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Content ML, Level 7 Principal Machine Learning Engineer to lead the vision and roadmap for Snap’s large-scale recommendation systems, focusing on content discovery and personalization across various Snap products. The role involves technically leading engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams on next-gen systems, and advancing the ML tech stack for recommendations. Requires deep understanding of RecSys architectures, ML/deep learning, and experience leading recommendation/personalization roadmaps, with a focus on shipping performant and scalable models. |
| Ship |
| 8 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search Ranking Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of next-generation Search ranking systems. This role involves designing, building, and improving ML models for relevance, quality, personalization, and utility of search results at scale. Responsibilities include developing ranking models using various techniques, balancing multiple objectives, partnering with cross-functional teams, analyzing user behavior, designing evaluation frameworks, and improving ML infrastructure. The role also requires technical leadership and staying current with AI advancements in search and related fields. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team, focusing on building AI-powered testing tools and infrastructure. This includes agent harnesses, evaluation systems, Temporal-based workflows, and telemetry-driven debugging capabilities to improve developer productivity and software quality across Snapchat's mobile apps and backend services. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure, Level 4 Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure at Snap, focusing on scaling ML infrastructure, optimizing training and inference systems, and improving ranking and recommendation systems. The role involves designing and optimizing infrastructure for ML workloads, building feature generation and serving pipelines, developing high-performance inference systems, and managing data for ML training and evaluation. | ServeData | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Level 4 Machine Learning Engineer at Snap focused on building and deploying ML models for core consumer products, owning the full ML lifecycle, and applying modern ML techniques to large-scale problems. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams and utilizing AI tools responsibly. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Level 5 Machine Learning Engineer at Snap Inc. responsible for building and deploying ML models for core products, owning the full ML lifecycle, and applying modern ML techniques to solve large-scale problems. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams and utilizing AI tools for scalable service design and deployment, with a focus on code correctness, security, and production standards. Experience in ranking, recommendations, search, content understanding, or image generation is required. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4 Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4 at Snap Inc. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and operating critical and scalable backend services, including user identity and friend graph services. The engineer will work across teams to deliver innovative products, advocate for best practices in availability and scalability, and utilize AI tools to streamline development while ensuring code correctness, security, and quality. Experience with distributed systems, operating highly-available systems at scale, and proficiency with AI development tools are required. | — | 5 |
| Experience Prototyper/Lab Manager, Level 3 (Fixed Term) This role supports a Vision Science team by managing lab operations, moderating human-subject research studies, and building rapid prototypes using tools like Lens Studio or Unity to enable experimental design and validation. The role bridges research, engineering, and creative development, translating vision science concepts into functional prototypes. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4 Backend Engineer role at Snap focused on designing, implementing, and operating critical and scalable services. The role involves working across teams, evaluating trade-offs, and delivering solutions for innovative products. A key aspect is the utilization of AI tools to streamline development, with an emphasis on auditing generated output for architectural integrity, performance, and security. The role requires experience with backend services or distributed systems and operating highly-available systems at scale. | — | 5 |
| People Application Developer This role focuses on developing and integrating AI solutions, specifically chatbots and LLM APIs, into enterprise systems like Workday. The primary responsibility is to build and deploy these AI-powered automations and middleware solutions to optimize People Team operations. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Security Engineering, Application Security Senior Manager to lead the Application Security team at Snap, focusing on defining and driving a multi-year security strategy, identifying and reducing systemic product security risks, establishing scalable practices for secure design and testing, and leading security architecture reviews. The role emphasizes automation, influencing senior leadership, and recruiting/developing security engineers. It also involves utilizing AI tools to streamline development while ensuring code correctness and security. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Software Engineering, Ads Data Infra Manager, Software Engineering for Ads Data Infra team at Snap. The role focuses on streamlining and fortifying the backbone of monetization data processing infrastructure and modernizing ads data management with AI. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring engineers, setting strategy, building roadmaps, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and evaluating technical tradeoffs. Requires background in high availability systems, data processing solutions, and experience leading engineering teams. Preferred qualifications include experience with large-scale distributed data processing systems and AI Agent development. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, iOS, Level 5 Software Engineer, iOS role at Snap focused on building and refining high-performance mobile apps, designing, architecting, and implementing Objective-C software for Snapchat's camera experiences. The role involves conceptualizing and launching new features, evaluating technical tradeoffs, collaborating with design, and conducting code reviews. A key aspect is the utilization of AI tools to streamline development, requiring critical judgment to audit AI-generated output for quality, performance, and security. The role also emphasizes adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems. | — | 5 |
| Staff Solutions Engineer, Level 6 Staff Solutions Engineer at Snap, focusing on building and improving products, designing end-to-end systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role involves writing scalable code, identifying insights from product usage metrics, and developing strategic plans with partners. It explicitly mentions utilizing AI tools and high-velocity engineering workflows, and requires adaptability in learning evolving AI systems. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4 Backend Engineer role at Snap, focusing on designing, implementing, and operating critical and scalable services. The role involves working across teams, evaluating trade-offs, and delivering solutions for innovative products. A key aspect is the utilization of AI tools to streamline development, with an emphasis on auditing generated output for quality, security, and performance. Experience with distributed systems, backend services, and cloud computing is required, with preferred experience in specific programming languages and technologies. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4 Backend Engineer role at Snap, focusing on designing, implementing, and operating critical and scalable services. The role involves working across teams, evaluating trade-offs, and delivering solutions for innovative products. A key aspect is the utilization of AI tools to streamline development, with an emphasis on auditing generated output for quality, performance, and security. The role requires experience with backend services or distributed systems and operating highly-available systems at scale. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Security Engineering, Identity Access Management Manager for Identity Access Management security engineering team, focusing on cloud and infrastructure security, defining technical strategy for IAM, and implementing scalable security controls and automation. The role utilizes AI tools for development and requires strong leadership and software engineering skills. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Android, Level 6 Staff Software Engineer, Android, Level 6 role at Snap Inc. focused on the client-side ads stack, specifically ad format rendering and delivery, ad platform, and inventory layers on Android. The role emphasizes networking, client performance, and leveraging AI tools and agentic development workflows to improve engineering velocity and product quality. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Business Intelligence Engineering, SMC This role leads a team of Business Intelligence Engineering specialists to scale Snap's Small & Mid-sized Clients (SMC) business by uncovering analytical insights from advertisers and translating them into data-driven actions for go-to-market and sales strategies. The role involves leading quantitative and qualitative analytical studies, developing analytical frameworks, ensuring data accuracy, mentoring a team, and partnering cross-functionally. It emphasizes leveraging AI and advanced analytics tools to accelerate insight generation and delivery. | — | 5 |
| DevOps Engineer, Level 4 DevOps Engineer responsible for designing and developing build systems and tooling for operating systems used by wearable computing devices. This role will also drive AI-Native Workflow Integration by implementing AI/LLM tools within CI, build, and development workflows to boost developer velocity. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer, Level 5, Detection & Response Security Engineer focused on designing, implementing, and automating detection and response systems for malicious activity across endpoints, infrastructure, networks, and cloud environments. The role involves investigating security events, building threat intelligence, and utilizing AI tools to enhance security workflows and services, with a strong emphasis on Python/Go development and OS internals. | — | 2 |
| Software Engineer, AR, Level 4 Software Engineer, AR, Level 4 at Snap, focusing on implementing engine and rendering features for AR experiences across Lenses, Games, and Spectacles. The role involves collaborating on new algorithms, working with modern mobile GPUs, researching advanced rendering effects, and optimizing for wearable AR devices. | — | 0 |
| Advanced Manufacturing Engineer This role focuses on Surface Mount Technology (SMT) design and manufacturing for augmented reality eyewear. The engineer will collaborate with design and manufacturing teams to ensure manufacturability, optimize yields, and develop an SMT technology roadmap. Responsibilities include supporting prototype builds, driving continuous improvement, and performing failure analysis for SMT-related defects. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager Technical Program Manager for a consumer electronic device (Specs eyewear) at Snap Inc., focusing on hardware project management from concept to delivery, including schedule creation, milestone planning, and cross-functional communication. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Backend, Level 5 Backend Engineer at Snap responsible for designing, implementing, and operating critical and scalable services. The role involves working across teams, evaluating trade-offs, and delivering solutions for innovative products. It requires advocating for best practices in availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management. A key aspect is the utilization of AI tools to streamline development, with a strong emphasis on auditing AI-generated output for correctness, performance, and security, and adapting to evolving AI systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Spectacles C++, Level 4 Software Engineer role focused on developing and improving reusable components, interactions, frameworks, and SDKs for immersive experiences on Snap Spectacles Augmented Reality Glasses, as well as developing components of the SnapOS operating system. | — | 0 |
| Hardware Lab Technician Hardware Lab Technician supporting audio, thermal, and other hardware engineers in an R&D environment for next-generation Spectacles (AR glasses). Responsibilities include performing acoustic and thermal testing, characterization, data collection, and troubleshooting using specialized equipment. Requires experience with test setup, data collection, scripting tools (Python/Matlab), and lab equipment operation. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Delivery Platform Principal Software Engineer role focused on building ad formats and backend infrastructure for Snap's performance advertising suite. The role involves end-to-end work on product innovation, experimentation, analysis, and optimization, with a strong emphasis on scalability, operational excellence, and technical leadership. | — | 0 |
| PCB Design Engineer Seeking a Senior PCB Designer with 7+ years of experience to join the Spectacles team. The role involves designing high-density PCBs and flexes from prototype to mass production using Allegro PCB Designer, collaborating with cross-functional engineers, and managing external ECAD resources. Requires strong skills in PCB layout, DFM/DFA, and knowledge of common interface standards. | — | 0 |
| Residential Security Officer This role is for a Residential Security Officer at Snap Inc. The primary responsibilities include implementing and managing a residential security program for senior executives, monitoring CCTV, implementing access control, conducting patrols, and responding to security incidents. The role requires strong understanding of security operations, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work flexible shifts. Minimum qualifications include 3 years of relevant security experience, a valid driver's license, and specific security permits. | — | 0 |
| Global Supply Manager (Silicon / OSAT) The Global Supply Manager (Silicon / OSAT) will support Spectacles' product lines for in-house silicon design teams and back-end packaging for micro displays. This role involves owning commercial relationships, influencing commodity strategy, setting up and expanding relationships with semiconductor suppliers, establishing a robust supply chain for volume production, driving design-to-cost, and implementing contracts. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in supply chain management or commodity management within the semiconductor industry. | — | 0 |
| Director, Security Engineering Director of Security Engineering to lead the Security Foundations Engineering team focused on Platform Security, Application Security, and Identity and Access Management. This role will partner with the CISO and senior executives on Security Engineering Initiatives, overseeing operations, strategy, team building, and risk mitigation for Snapchat's products and services. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Business Experience Principal Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing systems for advertiser experiences and the creator ads platform. The role involves leading infrastructure vision, innovating advertiser flows, and ensuring scalability, performance, and operational excellence. It requires deep expertise in building and scaling similar systems, strong software design skills, and experience with distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Ads Platform Principal Software Engineer role focused on building next-generation ad formats and backend infrastructure for Snap's advertising platform. Requires strong software design, distributed systems experience, and technical leadership, with a focus on scalability, operational excellence, and cost management within the ads domain. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Level 3 Security Engineer role focused on designing, implementing, and operating security controls for corporate devices, applications, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include building threat models, developing logging and alerting systems, investigating incidents, building automation tools in Python/Go, conducting security reviews for new technologies (including AI), and managing IAM/SSO integrations. Requires knowledge of OS internals and experience in security areas like forensics, incident management, or threat intelligence, with strong Python/Go skills. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Level 7 Principal Software Engineer at Snap, focusing on designing, implementing, and scaling critical engineering components and services for strategic initiatives. The role involves cross-team collaboration, advocating for best practices in availability, scalability, and operational excellence, and providing company-wide technical direction. Requires strong software design, distributed systems architecture, and technical leadership skills. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Ads Format, Level 7 Principal Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing to maximize user engagement and advertiser ROI. The role involves leading the vision and strategy for ad formats infrastructure, innovating new ad format ideas, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. It requires deep expertise in building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems, with a strong emphasis on operational excellence and mentorship. | — | 0 |
| Executive Protection Specialist This role is for an Executive Protection Specialist responsible for leading security details for client family members, focusing on school security programs and extracurricular activities. It also involves supporting residential security, executive protection assignments, and events. The role requires understanding and mitigating personal travel risks domestically and internationally, participating in advance surveys and threat assessments, and recommending security measures. Significant travel (up to 50%) is expected, with on-call availability 24/7. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer, Spectacles, L5 Electrical Engineer for Spectacles hardware team, focusing on schematic design, component selection, and board design for AR glasses. Requires strong electrical engineering fundamentals and experience with complex SOCs, PMICs, and wireless ICs. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer, Level 4 This role is for a Security Engineer at Snap Inc. The primary responsibilities include designing, implementing, and scaling security controls across various environments, conducting security assessments and threat modeling, building automation for security compliance, partnering with other teams to reduce risk, investigating security incidents, and defining security standards. The role requires strong technical background in security engineering, experience with security tooling, proficiency in programming languages like Python or Go, and expertise in specific security domains such as infrastructure security, application security, or detection and response. Experience securing complex distributed systems and strong software design skills are preferred. | — | 0 |
| Embedded Software Engineer, Level 3 Software Engineer focused on developing and enhancing software solutions for devices, specifically modem software for wireless connectivity. Responsibilities include design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and debugging of modem functionalities to improve user experience related to call, voice quality, data, thermal/power, and connectivity. The role involves analyzing performance gaps, debugging issues from various sources, and potentially supporting cellular carrier certification. | — | 0 |
| RF Test Engineer RF Test Engineer for Spectacles hardware, focusing on developing test solutions and plans for RF and wireless subsystems, including WiFi, Bluetooth, BLE, and cellular. Requires expertise in RF engineering principles, automation of test equipment, and Python/Labview scripting. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Electrical Engineering, Devices Manager, Electrical Engineering for Snap's Spectacles Team, focusing on AR product development and leading a team of electrical engineers. Responsibilities include people management, cross-functional collaboration, hardware design, debugging, and process development. | — | 0 |
| Staff Desense Engineer This role focuses on developing and implementing RF desense solutions for Spectacles, a hardware product. The engineer will collaborate with various teams, conduct rigorous testing, characterize desense issues, and identify system performance bottlenecks related to RF and antenna performance. The role requires strong fundamentals in RF, antenna, EMI, EMC, and coexistence engineering, along with knowledge of wireless communication standards and board-level design strategies. | — | 0 |
| AR Engineer, Level 4 Snap is seeking an AR Engineer for their Spectacles team to advance and build user-facing software for AR glasses. The role involves creating spatial experiences through multi-modal interactive systems, designing and implementing real-time 3D interaction algorithms, and developing core systems within custom 3D engines. The engineer will also interface with native OS and platform services and architect inter-application communication for shared-space AR experiences. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer, Level 4 Electrical Engineer for Snap's Spectacles team, focusing on schematic design, component selection, and board design for AR glasses. Responsibilities include leading technical design reviews, supervising layout, debugging hardware issues, testing and validating designs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires strong electrical engineering fundamentals and experience in electronic design, battery-operated systems, and communication interfaces. | — | 0 |