Principal Forward Deployed Engineer II, Frontier Engineering
Core
Senior technical authority and architectural leader for high-impact customer engagements, designing and deploying production-grade AI systems for strategic enterprise accounts.
Role type
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (IC6)
Builds
Production-grade AI systems, reusable architectures, and engineering standards for enterprise customers.
Domain
Enterprise AI / Agentic Systems / Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Production AI/ML system architecture, RAG pipelines, multi-step agentic systems, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, observability, security, executive technical advisory, cross-system tradeoff arbitration, hands-on production coding, technical mentorship, systems thinking
Preferred skills
Open-source AI framework contributions, industry speaking, familiarity with Cortex AI, Snowpark, modern enterprise data infrastructure
Technologies
RAG, agentic systems, Cortex AI, Snowpark
Responsibilities
Lead architectural steering and executive strategy alignment for customer portfolios; define organization-level standards for AI quality, reliability, and security; write production code and prototypes for critical customer programs; mentor senior engineering talent; translate customer needs into product requirements.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence
