Frontend AI Principal Engineer - Cortex Code

US-CA-Menlo Park💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build the architectural vision and user experience for Cortex Code (CoCo), Snowflake's flagship coding agent platform for data.

Role type

Principal Frontend AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Builds

CoCo Desktop and the underlying coding agent platform

Domain

Data platform / Agentic AI / Web UI

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

15+ years product web UI development, agentic systems, coding agents, Agentic SDLC, interactive dashboards, distributed systems, modern web architecture, API design, technical leadership

Preferred skills

Electron, VS Code tools/libraries

Technologies

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Node

Responsibilities

Define architectural vision for the CoCo coding agent platform, design exceptional user experiences, develop innovative platform offerings, drive team planning and product vision, build for scale and high performance

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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About Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don't just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset, who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowf