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Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Search Infrastructure at Snowflake

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$236,000 – $339,250/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Menlo Park, California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Snowflake is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale the search infrastructure powering its enterprise AI products. The role focuses on high-performance retrieval engines using vector search, hybrid search, and semantic indexing; agentic runtime orchestration; RAG infrastructure; evaluation and error-analysis pipelines; productionized multi-tenant AI microservices; and optimization of model routing, prompt caching, and token usage. Candidates need a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, at least nine years of experience building distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, or backend infrastructure for AI/ML products, and deep proficiency in Go or Java for systems and Python for AI orchestration.

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