# Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Snowflake) - CONTRACT TO HIRE at Abacus Insights

- Company: Abacus Insights
- What the company does: Abacus Insights offers a data management solution that standardizes data across the healthcare ecosystem by providing a highly secure unified data infrastructure that minimizes change management and maximizes analytics enablement to help healthcare providers... Backed by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners.
- Company website: https://abacusinsights.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/abacusinsights/jobs/8839020002?gh_jid=8839020002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/abacus-insights-senior-forward-deployed-ai-engineer-snowflake-contract-to-hire/

## About the role

Ready to make an impact? Join us and let’s build the future together. The Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing and building the AI and GenAI/agentic systems that power our platform on Snowflake, and for carrying that work directly into client environments. Hands-on Snowflake expertise is essential to this role. Databricks experience is a plus but not required.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software/AI engineering experience, including hands-on design of AI/ML systems
- Deep, hands-on experience with Snowflake, including Snowpark, Snowflake Cortex, and Snowflake ML
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining semantic layers on Snowflake (e.g. Cortex Analyst semantic views), including modeling business logic and metrics for AI/agent consumption
- Experience delivering metrics and reporting off of a semantic layer for clients, including validating outputs against business logic
- Demonstrated experience designing and building GenAI/agentic systems: RAG, MCP-based tooling, agent orchestration patterns, and evaluation harnesses
- Demonstrated ability to operate as the senior technical voice on ambiguous problems, with sound judgment on AI technical direction, without needing close direction

Tags: Engineering