Snowflake · 1 week ago
Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning Platform (Inference)
Menlo Park, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$236K/yr - $339K/yr
7+ years expSnowflake is a company focused on empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential through innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for their Machine Learning Platform team to build next-generation solutions that enable customers to perform machine learning workloads efficiently on Snowflake. The role involves defining strategies, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating with various teams to improve machine learning capabilities.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareSoftware
Responsibilities
Help define and own the roadmap, working collaboratively and proactively with senior architects, PMs, and team leadership. The initiatives include platforms and tools that enable customers to do state-of-the-art machine learning on Snowflake natively
Collaboratively build and execute a vision for incorporating new advances in machine learning in ways that best achieve the team’s business objectives
Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability, and performance
Collaborate across other ML partner teams to continuously improve ML development velocity and capabilities at Snowflake
Support team members in delivering a high level of technical quality
Qualification
Required
Have 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting Internet serving infrastructure, machine learning platforms, machine learning services, and frameworks
Strong track record of working with machine learning systems and/or platforms
Experience in serving LLMs using inference engines like vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, TEI, SGLang, and knowing tradeoffs between them
Experience serving fine-tuned LLMs (PEFT, DPO, RL)
Experience with several of the following frameworks: SKLearn, XGBoost, PyTorch, Tensorflow, MLflow is a plus
Previous experience in building batch and real-time ML serving systems preferred
Have built a roadmap and vision around machine learning teams, and led technical decision making with help of architects and PMs and team
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible spending & health savings account
At least 12 paid holidays
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Other company benefits
Company
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.03BKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalICONIQ GrowthAltimeter Capital
2022-04-19Post Ipo Equity· $621.46M
2020-09-16IPO
2020-02-07Series G· $479M
Leadership Team
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Co-founder, President of Product
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