[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Snorkel AI

Role Description

Snorkel AI, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA to build systems to power large-scale AI workloads for top tier AI research labs. Work closely with other engineers, product managers, and field team members to ensure that Snorkel’s frontier AI datasets meet and surpass the capabilities of the most advanced foundation models.

• Launch agents into production to accomplish long running reasoning and verification tasks.
• The Evaluation Engineering team owns critical systems for building high-quality post-training and benchmark datasets, integrating with the latest foundation model technology.
• Own the architecture, design, development, and operations of large-scale systems designed for AI/ML tasks including:
  • Distributed compute systems
  • Data management systems
  • Data engineering workflow systems
  • End user experiences
• Recognize and act on opportunities to integrate the latest agentic and foundation model technologies to power eval workflows.
• Prototype, optimize, and maintain scalable back-end services that will power new foundation model development tools.
• Design extensible and testable interfaces between internal services including the underlying storage and data models.
• Be an engaged team player in a customer-focused cross-functional environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4 years developing software using Java & Typescript and work with relational databases, with a focus on scalability, reliability and performance.
• 4 years building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems or compute frameworks for data processing.
• 3 years designing, developing and delivering AI/ML systems and services in production environments for cloud-native applications, development of AI agents and LLM-powered systems:
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• 3 years designing and implementing data storage, compute & retrieval systems to support AI/ML applications.
• 3 years improving large language model (LLM) applications through evaluation frameworks, prompt engineering and agent orchestration techniques.
• 3 years leading or owning the delivery of large, multi-person engineering projects from design through deployment.

Requirements

• Able to work 100% remotely.

Benefits

• Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly.
• Opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact ongoing success.
• Support in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.