Forward Deployed Analytics Engineer & AI Specialist

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

3d•$156,000 - $204,700•Onsite

About The Position

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. About the Role Forward Deployed Analytics Engineers combine domain expertise with full-stack data and analytics engineering capabilities, a rare pairing that makes us Snowflake's most effective technical presence in the field. You embed directly with customer data, analytics, and business teams to build the data foundations that power Snowflake's AI platform. This role is focused on the layers that make AI reliable: clean, well-modeled data, governed pipelines, and semantic models that expose business meaning to natural language interfaces. You will design rigorous data models, build and instrument pipelines, and construct the semantic layer that sits between raw data and AI agents. When you leave a customer engagement, their data is structured, trusted, and agent-ready. The deployment patterns and product gaps you surface feed directly back to Cortex product and research teams, making you both a practitioner and a source of signal for what gets built next.

Requirements

Advanced SQL: CTEs, window functions, incremental pipeline patterns. You can write complex queries without referencing documentation.
Analytics engineering and data modeling: Experience building data infrastructure involving large-scale relational datasets; strong instincts for pipeline design, QA, and testing across the full stack from ingestion through semantic layer.
Python: Modern, type-hinted, readable. You understand Python-based data pipelines and automation workflows.
AI-assisted development: You have used an LLM coding assistant (CoCo, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent) as your primary development environment. Daily usage is the baseline.
Semantic modeling: You can write a semantic view configuration or structured skill file that handles edge cases and encodes enough domain knowledge that the model behaves like a subject matter expert.
Client-facing communication: You write code, but your output needs to make sense to a business leader who has never opened a terminal. You are the translation layer between what Snowflake's AI can do and what the customer actually needs.
5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a related technical role, with at least a portion of it customer-facing or cross-functional
Daily use of an AI coding assistant as a primary development tool
Proficient in SQL; can write window functions and complex joins without referencing documentation
Experience with dbt or equivalent data modeling framework
Has shipped at least one production data model or pipeline that non-technical business users actually relied on
Comfortable in Git (PRs, branches, code review)
Demonstrable experience translating business requirements into technical specifications

Nice To Haves

dbt: Experience building and maintaining dbt projects with testing, documentation, and CI/CD pipelines.
Snowflake Cortex: Cortex Analyst, Cortex Agents, Cortex Search, semantic views, Dynamic Tables.
Experience with Airflow or other orchestration frameworks.
Familiarity with enterprise business systems (ERP, CRM, HRIS, or similar).

Responsibilities

Architect flexible, performant data models that drive customers toward single sources of truth across their key business domains
Use SQL, Python, dbt, and Snowflake to build and maintain data infrastructure for reporting, analysis, and automation
Perform data QA and develop automated testing procedures for Snowflake data models
Provide input into data governance strategies including permissions, data lineage, and data definitions
Build semantic data models that expose customer tables to natural language queries via Cortex Analyst, turning complex schemas into something a business stakeholder can ask a question of
Define and validate the metrics, dimensions, and relationships that AI agents need to reason correctly over customer data
Identify and resolve gaps in data structure, naming, and coverage that would cause an agent to fail or produce incorrect results
Build the artifacts customers leave with: documented playbooks, reusable data model templates, and semantic model libraries their teams can maintain and extend
Run technical workshops to upskill customer data and analytics teams on Snowflake's AI development environment
Author semantic view configurations and skill files (YAML + Markdown) that a non-technical analyst can invoke in plain English