Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier Engineering

About this role

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.

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology and careers to the next level.

We are hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer II for our Frontier Engineering team. This team embeds directly with Snowflake's most strategic customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems . At the IC6 level, you serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for a portfolio of high-impact customer engagements. You operate as a peer technical advisor to CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data and AI, setting technical direction that extends beyond individual accounts and influences how Snowflake delivers AI solutions at scale.

AS A PRINCIPAL FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER II YOU WILL:

• Serve as the senior technical authority and architectural leader for customer engineering leadership: Build durable, peer-level relationships with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, chief architects, and heads of data and AI at Snowflake’s most strategic accounts. Lead architectural steering, technical reviews, and executive strategy alignment while shaping multi-year AI roadmaps across a portfolio of customers.