Tech Lead Manager (Cortex AI, Snowflake Intelligence)

• The Cortex Apps team is building the future of AI for enterprise data. See our flagship product in action: Talk To Your Data: Snowflake Intelligence Demo
• Your work will directly impact how businesses understand and leverage their data. You’ll own the full AI engineering lifecycle: design, prompt/tool engineering, evals, deployment, measurement, and optimization. You’ll work with a small, high-powered modeling and infrastructure team
• Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Cortex products. Build agentic workflows, NL-to-SQL on semantic layers, search
• Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, semantic model-aware prompting for SQL, and verification/repair
• Design evals and hillclimb : create golden sets, create rubrics and metrics, analyze errors, run experiments to hill climb on the metrics
• Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to productionize improvements
• Lead a team of engineers towards building great products

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Health savings accounts
• Robust retirement plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Weekly online lunch and learns
• Virtual workout classes
• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
• On-demand mental health and wellness programs
• Fertility benefits and family planning resources
• Generous time-off and various leave plans
• Onsite and Remote Work
• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Quarterly bonus or commission program- (Optional) Experience working with text2sql, data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred but not a requirement
• 8+ years of experience shipping AI features in production
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go