Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Functions

United States

Staff

HYBRID

Snowflake is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Cortex AI Functions team, which focuses on making multimodal data agent-ready and useful for analytics at enterprise scale. In this role you will serve as a tech lead for a small group of engineers, driving large projects end to end across AI quality and applied modeling or database systems. The team brings semantic operators into SQL—extraction, classification, summarization, and more—so customers can process structured and unstructured data together in a single query or pipeline. This is a senior individual contributor role with strong...

C++

Java

Python

Algorithms and data structures

Software design

Applied machine learning

Model evaluation and error analysis

Prompt optimization

Query optimization

Distributed data processing

SQL

Debugging and testing

Technical leadership

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