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Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Search Infrastructure

Location: US-CA-Menlo Park · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Staff · Posted: August 18, 2026 · Verified: Oct 21, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This Staff Software Engineer role on the Cortex AI Search Infrastructure team focuses on building high-performance retrieval engines for Snowflake Cortex, including vector search, hybrid search, and semantic indexing. Responsibilities include architecting agentic runtimes, scaling context engineering infrastructure for RAG, building an Evals Engine, and productionizing AI workflows into multi-tenant microservices.
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Managed enterprise data cloud for analytics, sharing, AI, and clean rooms.

Headquarters: Suite 3A, 106 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT 59715

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