AI Engineer - Database Engineering

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · CA-Menlo Park, United States · Engineering

AI Engineer focused on building agentic workflows, coding harnesses, and evaluation pipelines within Snowflake's core database engine. The role involves owning the full AI engineering lifecycle from design to deployment and optimization, with a strong emphasis on enterprise-grade context engineering, guardrails, and systematic evaluation of AI features.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Database Engineering products. Build agentic workflows, coding harnesses, evaluation pipelines.
  2. Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, agent teams, and verification/repair.
  3. Design evals and hillclimb : create golden sets, create rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to hill climb on the metrics.
  4. Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to productionize improvements.
  5. Work with an elite team of engineers towards building great products

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Typescript
  • Go
  • agentic workflows
  • coding harnesses
  • evaluation pipelines
  • function calling
  • tool schemas
  • guardrails
  • agent teams
  • verification/repair
  • golden sets
  • rubrics
  • metrics
  • error analysis
  • experimentation
  • productionization

Nice to have

  • dbt
  • airflow
  • data modeling
  • data analysis
  • retrieval systems
  • semantic layers
  • agentic coding tools
  • LLM observability
  • safety / guardrails
  • pipelines
  • orchestration
  • complex systems
  • short feedback loops
  • high standards for rigor
  • independent problem solving
  • production reliability
  • systematic measurement and improvement

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience shipping AI features in production
  • built and owned complex systems
  • power user of modern coding agents

Other signals

  • AI-native thinkers
  • AI-forward approach
  • full AI engineering lifecycle
  • agentic enterprise