# Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMs

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Bellevue, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $200K - $287.5K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.

We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to serve as a technical pillar within our AI research organization.

## Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

- Define research direction in Agentic AI and LLMs

- Develop models: train, fine-tune, and align models for enterprise reasoning and tool use

- Advance autonomous agents: drive state-of-the-art capabilities in multi-step reasoning and tool use

- Advance the stack: 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 and lead to amplify the team’s technical impact

- Contribute to the field through publications and open source

## Requirements

We’re looking for:

- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field with a strong publication record

- Expertise in LLM development (training, fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training)

- Experience with agentic systems (multi-agent systems, tool use, or agent optimization)

- Strong systems thinking under real-world constraints (latency, cost, reliability)

- Proven technical leadership and end-to-end ownership

- Ability to translate research into impactful systems

## Benefits

- Compensation Range: $200K - $287.5K

- Frontier AI, Full Stack Work across the full stack,from foundation models (Arctic LLM, Arctic Text2SQL) to agent systems (Snowflake Intelligence) and inference/training infrastructure (Arctic Inference, Arctic Training)

- State-of-the-Art, Real Impact Drive cutting-edge research that ships,powered by massive enterprise data and production workloads

- Hard, Meaningful Problems Build autonomous systems for reliable reasoning over enterprise data,where correctness, cost, and latency all matter

- Open Research Culture Publish, open-source, and help shape the field

## Skills

### Required
- LLM development
- agentic systems
- systems thinking
- technical leadership

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