# Principal / Staff Applied Research Scientist at Snowflake

- Company: Snowflake
- What the company does: Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.snowflake.net/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US-CA-Menlo Park
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $236K to $339K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/31fdda97-2347-4031-8cb3-0d78207b58b4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-principal-staff-applied-research-scientist/

## About the role

Lead research projects that apply formal methods, program analysis, automated reasoning, and AI-driven techniques (including code generation and modeling) to real problems in our cloud data platform. Translate research ideas into prototypes, then into shipped capabilities that move concrete business metrics — quality, velocity, reliability, and operational performance at scale.

## What they're looking for

- PhD (or equivalent research experience) in Computer Science or a closely related field

Tags: Engineering