Principal Forward Deployed Engineer I, Frontier Engineering

📋 Description

• Be the trusted technical partner to customer engineering leadership: Build durable, peer-level
• Drive Architecture & Technical Strategy Across High-Stakes Deployments: Own end-to-end
• Stay hands-on: Write production code and working prototypes on the most critical parts of customer
• Own the AI quality bar: Lead how the team measures and improves AI quality, turning ambiguous
• Provide Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor Senior and Staff engineers, raise engineering
• Travel to Customer Sites: Spend at least 25% of your time onsite working with customers.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building and shipping
• Proven track record as a trusted technical advisor to CTOs and executive engineering leaders at
• Demonstrated success converting client/field delivery patterns into reusable platforms, tools
• Deep expertise in production AI architectures—including RAG pipelines, multi-step agentic systems
• Hands-on builder who writes and reviews production code and stays close to implementation.
• Strong systems mindset with exceptional technical communication skills across both deeply technical

🎁 Benefits

• Experience shipping features into a commercial data or AI platform, based on customer requirements.
• Active contributions to open-source AI frameworks, technical publications, or industry speaking
• Familiarity with Cortex AI, Snowpark, or modern enterprise data infrastructure platforms.