[Hiring] Software Engineer - Cortex Apps (LLM Products) @Snowflake

Role Description

Your work will directly impact how businesses understand and leverage their data. You'll own the full AI engineering lifecycle: design, prompt/tool engineering, evals, deployment, measurement, and optimization. You'll work with a small, high-powered modeling and infrastructure team.

What you will do in this role:

• Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Cortex products. Build agentic workflows, NL-to-SQL on semantic layers, search.
• Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, semantic model-aware prompting for SQL, and verification/repair.
• Design evals and hillclimb: create golden sets, create rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to hill climb on the metrics.
• Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to productionize improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred but not a requirement.
• 5+ years of experience shipping AI features in production.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
• (Optional) Experience working with text2sql, data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers is a plus.

Benefits

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Flexible spending & health savings account
• At least 12 paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Other company benefits

Company Description

Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud trusted by the world's most innovative companies. We're shipping production-ready AI applications at scale and want you to join us in building the future of how businesses interact with their data through our Cortex products.