Snowflake· HQ in Suite 3A, 106 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT 59715

Director of Engineering, AI Functions

Location: US-CA-Menlo Park · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Unspecified · Posted: July 21, 2026 · Verified: Sep 20, 2026

Role Overview & Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We're looking for a Director of Engineering to join our leadership team in AI Functions product portfolio, a hybrid director/principal engineer role at the forefront of AI-powered analytics. Join our Leadership team in AI Functions Product Portfolio.   Our mission is to democratize AI by surfacing powerful AI functions directly in SQL for analyzing structured and unstructured data, with minimal configuration. We handle the full AI lifecycle behind the scenes, so data analysts, engineers, and scientists can build data transformation pipelines with AI using the most sophisticated building blocks seamlessly within their existing SQL workflows.   The AI Functions product portfolio represents one of the most strategic and impactful product surfaces within Snowflake, bringing together two of the company’s core strengths: its industry-leading ability to process massive volumes of data and its growing capability to make that data AI-ready. By embedding advanced AI and LLM-powered functions directly into SQL, this portfolio transforms Snowflake from a data platform into an intelligent data system—where structured and unstructured data can be seamlessly prepared, enriched, and analyzed using AI at scale. This convergence enables customers to operationalize AI within their existing workflows, unlocking faster insights, more powerful applications, and a fundamentally new way to interact with data.   IN THIS ROLE AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Create and own architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and identify new initiatives that push Snowflake's technology forward for our customers - Set the strategic vision for the team and drive accountability for plans and deliverables - Solve real business needs at scale by applying strong software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills - Drive team projects from ideation through implementation in partnership with cross-functional teams - Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while ensuring sound, practical decision-making - Lead organizational structure evolution and improve engineering efficiency - Hire, develop, and mentor senior technical leaders - Manage, Grow, and Mentor the teams that have a significant impact on the success of the overall Snowflake product. WE WOUL
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our Frontier Security AI team. Snowflake's Frontier Security AI teams develop production-grade LLM applications, intelligent agents, AI infrastructure, and evaluation systems for enterprise customers — products that must meet a high bar for quality, security, reliability, and efficiency while operating over sensitive data at large scale. In this role, you will lead the design and development of our Agentic Harness and agent evaluation platform, working across product, infrastructure, applied AI, security, and modeling teams to take new capabilities from prototype to dependable customer value.   AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Architect and build the Agentic Harness that executes complex, multi-step AI workflows across models, tools, data, and services. - Design stable interfaces for tool execution, context construction, state management, memory, permissions, retries, fallbacks, and human review. - Own agent quality end to end by building evaluation harnesses, representative datasets, automated graders, experiment pipelines, and release gates. - Convert ambiguous reports such as "the agent feels worse" into measurable failure modes, reproducible tests, and durable fixes. - Analyze production agent trajectories to identify failures in reasoning, retrieval, tool use, context, orchestration, and application code. - Close the loop between production incidents, root-cause analysis, evaluation coverage, and regression prevention. - Develop offline and online measurements for task completion, correctness, groundedness, safety, latency, reliability, and cost. - Build simulation and replay infrastructure for golden-set tests, adversarial scenarios, model comparisons, and large-scale experiments. - Improve agent efficiency through model routing, prompt and semantic caching, context compaction, tool-result management, and token optimization. - Productionize new model capabilities as secure, observable, multi-tenant services with clear operational controls. - Establish standards for evaluation design, including sampling, ground-truth quality, grader calibration, leakage prevention, and statistical significance. - Define technical direction across multiple teams and lead pro