Snowflake · 2 months ago
AI Applied Scientist, Code Intelligence
US-CA-Menlo Park
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$200K/yr - $288K/yrSnowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. We’re seeking an AI Applied Scientist to drive Code Intelligence at Snowflake, focusing on building AI-powered capabilities that enhance developer efficiency and experience. The role involves developing systems for automated testing, code review assistance, and coding agents while collaborating closely with engineering teams.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareSoftware
Responsibilities
Build AI features that move the needle on developer outcomes—accelerating PR cycle time and time-to-first-commit, reducing review latency and defects, improving test coverage, and raising developer satisfaction
Design and deliver systems in three focus areas: automated testing, code review assistance, and coding agents that integrate with repos and workflows
Prototype quickly and iterate, then productionize and harden solutions for reliability, performance, and safety, with a strong bias toward shipping impact
Develop end-to-end ML pipelines: data preparation, training/fine-tuning, evaluation, and online serving—including experiment design, telemetry, and A/B measurement
Collaborate closely with Engineering Systems (our developer productivity team) to integrate into build, test, and deployment workflows
Write clear, maintainable Python and work across the stack to design, implement, and debug components from modeling to services and evaluation harnesses
Contribute to a culture of high-quality engineering: code health, documentation, and grounded decision-making informed by data
Write technical blogs and research papers to share your findings
Qualification
Required
MS or PhD in Computer Science (or related field)
Strong Python skills and fluency with a commonly used ML stack (e.g., PyTorch and XGBoost or similar)
Hands-on experience building ML data pipelines, plus a habit of rigorous evaluation and experiment design
Familiarity with serving stacks and vector stores; comfort learning what you don't know
Eagerness to learn build systems and CI/CD
Preferred
Previous experience with build systems and CI/CD is a plus but not required
LLMs for code, program analysis/ASTs, retrieval/RAG, prompt engineering & eval, large-scale A/B testing, backend/service development, and familiarity with OLAP systems like Snowflake
Company
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
Founded in 2012
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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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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