Current projects include a new architecture for multi-modal inference, quality gates that let us ship new functions and models with confidence at batch scale, and support for input data beyond plain text. Alongside these, we work continuously on throughput, cost and reliability as customer usage grows, and on making failures in the inference path easier to detect, diagnose and recover from.
For this role, you don’t need to have a research background, including pre-training or fine-tuning models.
YOUR JOURNEY AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Working in our team you will
Think creatively to find optimal solutions to our complex, often ambiguous problems
Participate in all stages of building and running the platform behind Snowflake’s AI functions, from design and implementation through rollout and production support
Work closely with research teams, as well as product and engineering partners, to understand and shape the short and long-term product development strategy
Serve as a mentor to less experienced engineers
IDEAL CANDIDATE
4+ years of experience building production backend or distributed systems in C++, Java, Go, Python, or a comparable language
BSc in a technical field (CS, EE, Physics, Math, etc), MSc/PhD is a plus
Experience designing and operating high-throughput services, including handling concurrency, backpressure, partial failures, and observability
Experience designing service or RPC APIs, such as REST or gRPC
Experience with software engineering best practices (programming, testing, version control, CI/CD, containers, agile development, etc)
Experience with building distributed systems that guarantee high throughput without compromising on reliability
High levels of curiosity and eager enthusiasm for open-ended problems, and the ability to turn a loosely defined problem into a scoped, testable design
Ability to articulate results and complex concepts to leadership
Must be able to produce solutions independently in an organized manner, as well as work in a team
Experience with SQL engines, query execution, or other large-scale data systems is a strong asset
Hands-on experience in the MLOps field (e.g., deploying ML models) is a plus
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
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