# Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI 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: Senior
- Location: US-CA-Menlo Park
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/12455179-f3ff-4739-b8c0-c21f3c116b87
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-senior-staff-forward-deployed-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

Lead Customer Programs : Own the full lifecycle of complex, multi-engineer AI engagements – from scoping and architecture through deployment, monitoring, and handoff. Be accountable for delivery quality and customer outcomes for the projects you lead.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or teams, including setting technical direction, reviewing others' work, and driving delivery to completion
- Proven experience building and productionizing applications using LLMs, especially with technologies like RAG and agentic workflows
- Hands-on experience defining quality metrics and evaluation frameworks for LLM or agent systems, and using evals to systematically improve quality over time
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with an ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to independently structure and execute on complex, open-ended problems
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience

Tags: Engineering