Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMs (AI Engineering)

Location: Hybrid in Bellevue, Washington or Menlo Park, California, United States

Salary: $200,000–$287,500 per year

Company

Snowflake provides an enterprise Data Cloud platform and develops AI, data, and machine learning products.

What you will do

• Define research direction in agentic AI and large language models.
• Train, fine-tune, align, and develop models for enterprise reasoning and tool use.
• Advance autonomous agents, multi-step reasoning, tool use, retrieval, grounding, memory, and multi-agent coordination.
• Establish evaluation standards for reliability, safety, and efficiency.
• Drive research breakthroughs into production within Snowflake’s platform.
• Mentor researchers, provide technical leadership, and contribute through publications and open source.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field with a strong publication record.
• Expertise in large language model development, including training, fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training.
• Experience with agentic systems, including multi-agent systems, tool use, or agent optimization.
• Strong systems thinking under real-world latency, cost, and reliability constraints.
• Proven technical leadership and end-to-end ownership.
• Ability to translate research into impactful production systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across the full AI stack, from foundation models to production systems.
• Conduct frontier research using enterprise data and production workloads.
• Build autonomous systems for reliable reasoning over enterprise data.
• Publish research and contribute to open-source projects.
• Follow strict confidentiality and data security standards when handling sensitive customer information.