Principal AI Software Engineer - Snowflake Intelligence

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Technical Lead Manager for our Cortex AI Frontend team. This team builds the AI/ML-powered user experiences that enable enterprises to converse with their structured data and extract insights in unprecedented ways — spanning the full product lifecycle from conception through deployment. You will own both the technical direction and the people leadership for a team of frontend engineers at the intersection of AI, data, and enterprise UX. AS A TECHNICAL LEAD MANAGER, AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: * Own the technical strategy and execution for the AI Frontend team, driving projects from initial idea formulation and detailed system design through high-quality implementation and successful deployment. * Provide deep technical oversight by actively participating in design reviews, architecture discussions, and complex frontend system implementations — ensuring scalability, reliability, and exceptional user experience. * Serve as a key technical contributor and subject matter expert in AI/ML-powered frontend development, setting the bar for engineering excellence and coding best practices across the team. * Collaborate closely with product managers and UX/UI designers to translate user needs and business objectives into clear technical roadmaps and production-ready solutions. * Mentor and coach engineers on complex technical challenges and career development; grow a strong, diverse team through proactive and deliberate hiring. * Define team plans and deliverables while remaining accountable for the frontend platform's availability, performance, and maintainability across the full AI application lifecycle. * Lead the improvement of engineering processes, tooling, and standards — with a focus on velocity, code quality, and developer experience. * Partner effectively with backend, platform, and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration and influence the direction of the broader AI applications platform. * Champion the use of AI coding assistants (such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar tools) as a core part of the team's development workflow, modeling and scaling AI-native engineering practices. OUR IDEAL TECHNICAL LEAD MANAGER WILL HAVE: * 9+ years of experience designing and building large-scale, user-facing systems in production. * 3+ years of experience managing and leading teams delivering mission-critical, high-concurrency, low-latency user interfaces. * Deep hands-on proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and the React ecosystem; ability to drill into complex frontend architecture and implementation on a routine basis. * Proficiency in at least one additional language such as Python, Go, or Java. * Strong understanding of software engineering principles including design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and system design. * Demonstrated ability to translate product requirements into technical specifications and lead engineering execution from concept to launch. * Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and design stakeholders. * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING: * Experience building or shipping LLM-powered applications (through prior work, open source, or personal projects). * Active use of AI coding assistants in your daily workflow — you treat AI as a high-trust collaborator, not just an autocomplete tool. * Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. * Prior experience working on data analytics, BI, or conversational AI products for enterprise customers. * Familiarity with backend services and APIs that power AI/ML inference or data retrieval at scale. WHY JOIN OUR CORTEX AI FRONTEND TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? This team sits at the center of Snowflake's AI transformation — building the products that make enterprise AI real and accessible to users across every industry. You'll work on high-visibility surfaces like Snowflake Intelligence and next-generation data interaction experiences, with the mandate to move fast and raise the bar on what enterprise AI UX can be. The team combines the ambition of a startup with the scale and resources of a market-leading data cloud company. As TLM, you'll have real ownership: of technical direction, of team culture, and of the outcomes that matter to customers and to Snowflake's growth. If you're energized by building AI-native teams and shipping products that change how enterprises work with their data, this is the role. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. Snowflake is reimagining what a modern Postgres experience can be. The Snowflake Postgres team is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service that delivers the reliability, performance, and scale developers expect that is paired with a data experience that seamlessly ties into Snowflake. As a Principal Engineer, you'll help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: * Serve as the technical leader on our most critical, cross-functional projects. * Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely. * Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it. * Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs. * Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services. * Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security. * Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE: * 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or cloud services. * Appreciation of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals. * Strong systems programming experience (Ruby experience a strong plus). * Experience building high-availability, multi-tenant, or highly distributed data systems. * Comfortable navigating large, complex codebases and leading cross-team architecture efforts. * A track record of driving projects from concept to production with measurable impact. * Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering and product organizations. * Passion for making Postgres better, simpler, and more powerful for developers everywhere. WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? * Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform. * Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more! * Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor. * Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars. Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com