Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier Engineering
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
Snowflake is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their Frontier Engineering team and help global companies implement enterprise AI solutions.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on software engineer with strong experience building LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows, coupled with a rigorous approach to evaluation and qualit
The role requires comfort with ambiguity, fast-paced environments, and frequent travel (at least 25% of the time onsite with customers).
Candidates without practical experience in productionizing LLMs and building evaluation frameworks for AI systems should not apply.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Architect, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI solutions and sophisticated AI agents from prototype to production.
- 2Define quality metrics, evaluation frameworks, and golden datasets to run systematic evaluation loops and ensure agent safety, accuracy, and faithfulness.
- 3Rapidly design, iterate, and ship robust, scalable, and performant solutions using Python and SQL.
- 4Build safety guardrails, observability, and human-review workflows to productionize AI applications at scale.
- 5Partner directly with customer data science and engineering teams as a hands-on technical advisor.
- 6Collaborate cross-functionally with Snowflake's Product and Engineering teams to influence the AI platform roadmap based on field feedback.
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