Lead Cortex AI Engineer
Lead cutting-edge AI development as a Lead Cortex AI Engineer using Snowflake Cortex, LLMs, agentic workflows, and scalable data-centric applications.
Job Description
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Computer Science
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- 7+ Hands-on experience on Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
- 3+ years of proven experience with building LLM-powered applications including agentic workflows with measurable impacts.
- Strong hands-on experience with Cortex AI services: Analyst, Search, AI SQL, Vector Embedding etc.
- Experience in developing scalable data-centric applications using Snowpark containers in Python.
- Hands-on experience in creating conversational agentic apps using natural language prompts in Snowflake Intelligence.
- 5+ years of experience in SQL & Python programming.
- Knowledge of Snowflake hosted LLM model garden (Claude, Llama, OpenAI, Mistral, Arctic etc.) will be a plus.
- Familiarity with LLM model evaluation methodologies.
- Working experience in Snowflake managed / custom MCP servers.
- Strong experience working with GIT and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong working experience in Agile-based product development processes.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Design and implement LLM-powered apps in Snowflake using its Cortex AI capabilities.
- Build Cortex Analyst solutions on SQL-based semantic models / views through natural language prompts.
- Implement RAG workflows using Cortex Search over unstructured documents and texts.
- Design AISQ pipelines to analyze multimodal data natively in SQL.
- Create Agentic AI orchestration frameworks in Snowflake Intelligence.
- Integrate Snowflake ML assets (Model Registry, Feature Store, Notebooks, Snowpark etc.) where custom models are needed.
- Enforce Snowflake Horizon governance patterns including RBAC, data encryption, auditability across internal and external data sources.
- Ensure trusted AI practices (e.g. model safety & filtering).
- Optimize AI pipelines through right sizing of serverless compute, efficient application design, meeting desired latency.
- Establish observability for Cortex AI services for application monitoring and cost management.
- Manage the new requirements, create design artifacts, develop codebase, CI / CD pipelines.
- Lead a team of small to medium capacity in an onsite-offshore model.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders such as Data Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Security/Risk & Compliance etc.
- Strong experience leading an AI development team of small to medium capacity in onsite-offshore model.
- Strong experience in customer-facing engagement, communication, stakeholder management.
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