Senior Software Engineer - Cortex AI - FDE

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise and building AI products for enterprise data. The Senior Software Engineer will develop and scale backend infrastructure for agent runtimes, context retrieval, evaluation systems, and production AI workflows, while optimizing performance, cost, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities:

• Architect Agentic Runtimes: Build and scale the orchestration engines that execute complex agentic workflows, ensuring low-latency tool execution and robust state management
• Scale Context Engineering Infra: Design high-performance systems for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), including vector database integration, scalable and efficient search indexing, query processing, and result ranking, semantic caching, and automated metadata extraction
• Build the "Evals Engine": Develop the automated infrastructure required to run massive-scale golden set simulations, error analysis pipelines, and "hillclimbing" experiments
• Productionize AI Workflows: Collaborate with the modeling team to take raw LLM capabilities and turn them into hardened, multi-tenant microservices with strict guardrails and observability
• Optimize Performance & Cost: Direct the infra strategy for model routing, prompt caching, and token optimization to ensure Snowflake’s AI features are the most efficient in the industry