Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMs

📋 Description

• Define research direction in Agentic AI and LLMs
• Develop models: train, fine-tune, and align models for enterprise reasoning and tool use
• Advance autonomous agents: multi-step reasoning and tool use
• Advance the stack: retrieval, grounding, memory, and multi-agent coordination
• Establish evaluation standards for reliability, safety, and efficiency
• Drive research breakthroughs into production within Snowflake’s platform

🎯 Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field with strong publications
• Expertise in LLM development (training, fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training)
• Experience with agentic systems (multi-agent, tool use, or agent optimization)
• Strong systems thinking under real-world constraints
• Proven technical leadership and end-to-end ownership
• Ability to translate research into impactful systems

🎁 Benefits

• Open research culture: publish, open-source, and shape the field
• Frontier AI, full-stack role across foundation models to inference/training
• Impactful work with enterprise data and production workloads