AI Engineer - Database Engineering

About the role

You will work on critical business initiatives in the core database engine, bring an AI-forward approach to software development and accelerate roadmap cycles for the benefit of our customers. Your work will directly impact how developers and businesses build with 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 engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Database Engineering products.
• Build agentic workflows, coding harnesses, evaluation pipelines.
• Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, agent teams, and verification/repair.
• Design evals and hillclimbs: 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.
• Work with an elite 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, Typescript, Go.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

Nice to have

• Deep experience with agentic coding tools (e.g. IDE agents, CLI agents) and intuition for model strengths, failure modes, and prompting limits.
• Background in data engineering (dbt, Airflow), data modeling, analytics, retrieval / RAG, or semantic layers — highly relevant for data-centric coding agents.
• Prior work on eval harnesses, LLM observability, or safety / guardrails in production.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending & health savings account.
• At least 12 paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Employee assistance program.
• Other company benefits.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $230,000. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan. The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Schedule

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Qualifications

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Skills

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Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending & health savings account.
• At least 12 paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Employee assistance program.
• Other company benefits.

Application Instructions

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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