Principal Forward Deployed Engineer II, Frontier Engineering

📋 Description

• Serve as senior technical authority and architectural leader for customer engineering leadership
• Drive architecture and technical strategy across a portfolio of high-stakes deployments, setting
• Influence Snowflake product direction by translating customer needs and deployment learnings into
• Stay hands-on and set the engineering bar by writing production code and prototypes, reviewing
• Set the AI quality and reliability bar by defining organization-level standards for evaluation
• Provide technical leadership and develop senior technical talent by mentoring Principal, Staff, and

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping production AI/ML or
• Proven track record serving as trusted technical advisor to CTOs and executive engineering leaders
• Demonstrated success converting client and field delivery patterns into reusable platforms, tools
• Deep expertise in production AI architectures—including RAG pipelines, multi-step agentic systems
• Hands-on technical leader who writes and reviews production code and can move from executive
• Exceptional systems thinking and technical communication skills, with ability to influence without

🎁 Benefits

• The opportunity to work on hard problems with real stakes alongside deeply technical
• Define reusable architectures, engineering standards, and product feedback loops that scale AI
• Play a pivotal role in shaping multi-year AI roadmaps for Snowflake's most strategic accounts.
• Collaborate with and mentor senior technical talent across the organization.
• Influence Snowflake product direction based on customer needs.
• Competitive salary and benefits (details on Snowflake careers site).