Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Functions
Core
Lead AI-native software engineering initiatives to make raw multimodal data agent-ready for enterprise analytics via Snowflake AI Functions.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead)
Builds
AI-aware SQL pipelines, semantic operators, and hybrid query systems integrating AI with database execution.
Domain
Data & AI / Database Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI quality/applied modeling OR database systems expertise, algorithm design, C++/Java/Python fluency, distributed systems, query optimization, model fine-tuning, error analysis, product strategy
Preferred skills
Model post-training, AI infrastructure integration, compiler optimization
Technologies
SQL, C++, Java, Python, distributed execution engines, model hosting/inference platforms
Responsibilities
Lead multi-engineer projects from architecture to production, define model strategies balancing accuracy/cost/latency, advance AI-aware query planning and compiler optimizations, co-define product strategy with PMs, mentor engineers and conduct code reviews
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
