Snorkel AI · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer — AI Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$275K/yr - $300K/yr
12+ years expSnorkel AI is on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to define and drive the technical direction of their AI Platform, focusing on architecting core systems for synthetic data generation and scalable LLM operations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data Collection and LabelingEnterprise SoftwareMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Architect the core platform that powers synthetic data generation, agentic workflows, RL environments, and scalable LLM operations
Build distributed systems that allow customers — and our own expert network — to generate datasets and evaluations at unprecedented scale
Design and evolve the APIs, compute services, and orchestration layers that empower internal and customer-facing applications
Collaborate across product, research, and engineering teams to define the long-term technical strategy of Snorkel
Act as a technical leader, mentor, and culture-setter for the engineering organization
Serve as a key advisor to company leadership while owning high-impact, highly ambiguous problem spaces
Think years ahead about where AI is going — and help Snorkel build the infrastructure that gets us there
Generate and refine synthetic data at massive scale
Create and evaluate agentic systems that reason, act, and improve over time
Provision RL training environments and simulation frameworks for next-generation AI agents
Deploy robust benchmarks, datasets, and automated labeling pipelines to accelerate model development
Run LLMs and multi-agent systems efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively across cloud and hybrid environments
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
12+ years of experience building customer-facing, cloud-native software systems
Deep experience with AI/ML pipelines, LLM-based systems, or agentic workflows
Experience with distributed computing, large-scale data systems, or orchestration frameworks
Experience at high-growth technology startups
Experience building software products for large enterprise customers
Expertise in Python and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Strong understanding of production web-scale systems: monitoring, telemetry, reliability, performance, debugging, and triage
Passion for mentorship, technical leadership, and elevating engineering culture
Preferred
15+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experience designing platforms for machine learning, synthetic data generation, or reinforcement learning environments
Experience with LLM infrastructure, API unification layers, distributed inference, or model-serving systems
Experience with Typescript and React (for platform-oriented or internal tool development)
Experience with engineering management or developing growth frameworks (career ladders, mentorship programs, upskilling initiatives)
Company
Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI is an AI platform that accelerates data labeling by using machine learning for faster model training.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$235.25MKey Investors
Accenture VenturesAdditionQBE Ventures
2025-08-06Series Unknown
2025-05-29Series D· $100M
2024-01-23Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Alexander Ratner
Co-Founder and CEO
Henry Ehrenberg
Co-Founder
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