Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff AI Engineer role sits at the intersection of two defining SaaS currents: cloud data platforms and productized AI. Within Snowflake’s Cortex Apps work, the focus is not on exploratory models but on enterprise-facing capabilities like agentic workflows, semantic-layer aware NL to SQL, and search, all of which are increasingly becoming baseline expectations for modern SaaS analytics and data products.
The career value comes from owning the full AI engineering loop in a production context: turning ambiguous customer problems into measurable behaviors, designing evaluation frameworks, and iterating based on error analysis and metrics. That combination of context engineering, deployment discipline, and continuous optimization maps directly to how AI features are being shipped across SaaS, where reliability, guardrails, and observability matter as much as model quality. Experience partnering closely with product and infrastructure also builds the cross-functional judgment needed to scale AI capabilities beyond a single feature.
This is best suited to senior engineers who prefer end-to-end responsibility and are comfortable making tradeoffs under real enterprise constraints. It will fit professionals who enjoy experimental iteration, but who also value rigor in measurement, safety, and production readiness when delivering AI-driven user experiences.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
About the Role
The Cortex Apps team is building the future of AI for enterprise data. See our flagship product in action:Talk To Your Data: Snowflake Intelligence Demo.
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.
Lead a team of engineers towards building great products
Requirements:
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, Go
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.
About Snowflake
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: Snowflake intelligence, cortex agents, cortex analyst, cortex search.
About Snowflake
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: Snowflake intelligence, cortex agents, cortex analyst, cortex search.
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?
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