# Director of Engineering, AI Functions

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Menlo Park, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $264K – $379.5K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to join our leadership team in AI Functions product portfolio, a hybrid director/principal engineer role at the forefront of AI-powered analytics.

Our mission is to democratize AI by surfacing powerful AI functions directly in SQL for analyzing structured and unstructured data, with minimal configuration.

IN THIS ROLE AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

- Create and own architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and identify new initiatives that push Snowflake's technology forward for our customers

- Set the strategic vision for the team and drive accountability for plans and deliverables

- Solve real business needs at scale by applying strong software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills

- Drive team projects from ideation through implementation in partnership with cross-functional teams

- Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while ensuring sound, practical decision-making

- Lead organizational structure evolution and improve engineering efficiency

- Hire, develop, and mentor senior technical leaders

- Manage, Grow, and Mentor the teams that have a significant impact on the success of the overall Snowflake product.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE:

- Advanced degree in Computer Science

- 10+ years of software engineering experience with recent hands-on experience

- 2+ years of engineering director experience, including managing managers

- Deep experience with AI infrastructure and LLMs

- Experience building large-scale query processing or distributed systems

- Strong track record of recruiting and growing technical teams

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across global organizations

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? Join us at the forefront of AI innovation where you'll lead transformative initiatives that shape the future of data and artificial intelligence. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge LLM technology while building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- AI infrastructure
- LLMs
- large-scale query processing
- distributed systems
- software engineering

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