Principal Forward Deployed Engineer I, Frontier Engineering
Core
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with strategic enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems, acting as a senior technical counterpart to CTOs and VPs of Engineering.
Role type
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (AI/ML)
Builds
Production-grade AI systems, agentic systems, and reusable platforms/tools for enterprise customers
Domain
Enterprise AI, Agentic Systems, Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Production AI/ML system architecture, Agentic systems design, RAG pipelines, Multi-step agentic systems, Evaluation frameworks, Guardrails, Production code development, Technical strategy alignment, Mentorship
Preferred skills
Commercial data/AI platform features, Open-source AI framework contributions, Cortex AI, Snowpark, Enterprise data infrastructure
Responsibilities
Lead architectural steering and executive strategy alignment with customer engineering leadership, Own end-to-end technical execution for high-stakes AI engagements, Write production code and review designs, Lead AI quality measurement and improvement, Mentor Senior and Staff engineers, Travel to customer sites (25%+ time)
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship
