# Senior Software Engineer, Cortex Quality 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
- Level: Senior
- Location: US-CA-Menlo Park
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/c0b3a0bb-f3bd-4df2-863e-5abe846ba1c0?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-senior-software-engineer-cortex-quality/

## About the role

This is a measurement-first role that owns the quality and efficiency of Cortex Code end to end: how good the agent is, how much it costs to run, and how reliably it behaves in production. You will take agents from research capability to real, measurable user value — turning fuzzy “the agent feels worse” signals into hard metrics, running the experiments that move them, and shipping the changes that stick. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field. Master’s or higher preferred but not a requirement
- 6+ years of experience shipping software in production, including AI/LLM features
- Fluency in at least one of Python, TypeScript, or Go, and willingness to work across all three
- A measurement-first, systems-thinking instinct: you optimize for user outcomes over isolated metrics, and you can design an eval that is not fooling you (sampling, ground-truth quality, leakage, noise)
- Comfort debugging complex, unpredictable, real-world failures
- Strong communication skills: you can make a quality or cost result legible to engineers, product, and leadership, and collaborate effectively in a team environment

Tags: Engineering

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