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Lead AI Engineer, Cortex Apps
Lead AI Engineer, Cortex Apps
The Lead AI Engineer, Cortex Apps will own the full AI engineering lifecycle for Snowflake Cortex products, focusing on building agentic workflows and enterprise-grade context engineering. This role involves designing evaluations, partnering with product and infrastructure teams, and leading a team of engineers to deliver impactful AI features.
About the role
About the Role
The Cortex Apps team is building the future of AI for enterprise data. Your work will directly impact how businesses understand and leverage their data. You'll own the full AI engineering lifecycle: design, prompt/tool engineering, evals, deployment, measurement, and optimization. You'll work with a small, high-powered modeling and infrastructure team.
What you will do in this role:
- Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Cortex products. Build agentic workflows, NL-to-SQL on semantic layers, search.
- Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, semantic model-aware prompting for SQL, and verification/repair.
- Design evals and hillclimb: create golden sets, create rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to hill climb on the metrics.
- Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to productionize improvements.
- Lead a team of engineers towards building great products.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred but not a requirement.
- 8+ years of experience shipping AI features in production.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
- (Optional) Experience working with text2sql, data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers is a plus.
Skills
PythonGotext2sqlData ModelingData AnalysisRetrieval Systemssemantic layersPrompt Engineeringtool engineeringEvalsAgentic WorkflowsNL to SQLFunction Callingtool schemasguardrailssemantic model aware prompting