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Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML, Advanced Services

Snowflake

LocationUnited States
SeniorityPrincipal
CompanySnowflake
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Compensation

From $196k

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Requirements and working style

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Experience

8+ years stated

Education

Bachelor's degree (typically with 12+ years experience) or Master's degree (typically with 8+ years experience)

Work authorization

United States work authorization required

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What this posting tells you

This is a principal-level technical architect role focused on AI/ML and legacy modernization for Snowflake. The position supports fully remote work within New York City, USA, and requires extensive experience (typically 8+ years with a Master’s or 12+ years with a Bachelor's). The role demands expertise in AI/ML, cloud, data, and programming skills (Go, Rust), specifically within the Snowflake ecosystem. Salary starts at $196,000 USD. The location is somewhat unclear but indicates remote work tied to New York City. Work authorization for the US is required. No explicit schedule or benefits details provided.

Role lane

Backend, Customer success, Data, Design and creative, DevOps, Marketing, Security

Where you can work

United States

Working hours

America/New_York

Arrangement

Principal · full_time

Required signals
AIMLAPICloudDataGoRustLegacy ModernizationGenerative AIEnterprise ArchitectureTechnical StrategyExecutive Communication
Preferred signals
Snowflake CortexVector Data TypesLLM Frameworks
Market context

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AIMLAPICloudDataGoRustLegacy ModernizationGenerative AIEnterprise ArchitectureTechnical StrategyExecutive CommunicationSnowflake CortexVector Data TypesLLM FrameworksRemote within New York City, USA
Job description

Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML, Advanced Services at Snowflake

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. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL ARCHITECT - AI/ML

LEAD. STRATEGIZE. TRANSFORM.

SUMMARY

Recognized expert and strategic technical advisor resolving critical, wide-ranging design matters for legacy modernization and Generative AI.

WHY THIS ROLE?

You act as the technical "North Star" for high-stakes migrations. You exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments with high business impact.

What you’ll do

  • Develop reusable solution patterns, global reference architectures, and practice-wide white papers.
  • Modernize legacy stacks (Netezza, Teradata, Exadata) into Snowflake AI workloads using deep architectural knowledge.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution.
  • Solve for LLM robustness, including managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale.
  • Gen AI Robustness: Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs, ensuring safety and performance.
  • Legacy Transformation: Facilitate high-complexity data migrations from on-prem legacy systems into AI-ready cloud environments.
  • Strategic Risk Management: Determine technical approaches for assignments that impact regional or global design success.

SNOWFLAKE-NATIVE TECH STACK

Vector Data Types, Snowflake Cortex, Advanced LLM Frameworks, Global Asset Creation.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE

  • Typically requires 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's; or 8 years with a Master's.
  • Expert reputation in the AI/ML community and the Snowflake ecosystem.
  • Visionary thinker with the ability to influence regional practice strategy and create regional frameworks.
  • Adoption rate of authored assets; Performance in "must-win" strategic accounts; Regional practice influence.
  • Strong executive communication: Ability to present complex AI/ML concepts and ROI to technical and business audiences.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com

Company context

Working remotely at Snowflake

Snowflake’s cloud data platform shatters the barriers that have prevented organizations of all sizes from unleashing the true value from their data.

Headquarters
Australia, United States, Germany, Singapore, Japan, India, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and Poland
Team size
1001-5000
Founded
2012
Remote policy

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Application process

Review current openings on Snowflake's official careers page before applying.

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