Snowflake Cortex AI / Agentic AI Architect

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly experienced Snowflake AI Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Snowflake Cortex, Cortex Agents, CoWork, and Agentic AI frameworks. The ideal candidate will have experience implementing, optimizing, and scaling AI-powered solutions in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate, enhance, and optimize existing production AI Agentic frameworks.
• Design and implement AI-driven solutions using Snowflake Cortex.
• Develop and optimize Snowflake Cortex Agents and AI-powered workflows.
• Scale production AI solutions to support growth from hundreds to thousands of users.
• Design enterprise-grade AI architectures with a focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Integrate LLM-powered applications with enterprise data using Snowflake's native AI capabilities.
• Optimize AI workloads, query performance, resource utilization, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable AI solutions.
• Establish best practices for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production AI applications.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake architecture and advanced Snowflake capabilities.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake Cortex AI and Cortex Agents.
• Practical experience with Agentic AI frameworks and AI-powered enterprise applications.
• Experience building and deploying LLM-based solutions in production.
• Strong understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, and AI orchestration.
• Experience scaling and optimizing AI applications for enterprise workloads.
• Excellent communication, architecture, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Snowflake Cortex AI features, including Cortex Search and Cortex Analyst.
• Experience with multi-agent workflows and enterprise AI use cases.
• Familiarity with Python, SQL, APIs, and AI application integration.
• Experience with Snowflake security, governance, and performance optimization.

Important Screening Criteria

• Prioritize candidates with demonstrable, hands-on Snowflake Cortex and Agentic AI implementation experience.
• SAP experience is a plus but not required.
• Candidates with only traditional Snowflake data engineering or administration experience, without Cortex/AI expertise, will not be a fit.
• Candidates must be comfortable with the initial one-month onsite requirement in Santa Monica, CA, followed by remote work.