Senior Software Engineer, Cortex Quality
Core
Own the quality, efficiency, and reliability of Cortex Code, Snowflake's coding agent for data engineering workflows, by building eval harnesses, running experiments, and optimizing costs.
Role type
Senior IC AI/LLM agent quality engineer
Builds
Eval harnesses, agent behavior refinements, cost/latency optimization systems, production debugging loops, data pipelines for task insights
Domain
AI/LLM agents, data engineering, software quality assurance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, TypeScript, Go, systems thinking, experimental design, production debugging, data pipeline construction, model evaluation
Preferred skills
agentic coding tools, LLM observability, safety/guardrails, data modeling, RAG, semantic layers
Technologies
Python, TypeScript, Go, LLMs, eval harnesses, data pipelines
Responsibilities
Design and refine agent behaviors for real coding workflows; build eval harnesses and diagnose failure modes; drive down cost and latency without regressing quality; debug production failures and increase robustness; build data pipelines for task insights; onboard and evaluate frontier models
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
