Frontend AI Principal Engineer - Cortex Code
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. How do you make the world's most powerful coding agent for data a delight to use? We are the fastest growing software company at this scale in history and looking to push that to new heights by building the best coding agent in the industry. The Cortex Code (CoCo) team is building the future of coding agents for working with data. See our flagship product in action: CoCo Desktop in Action. As a Frontend AI Principal Engineer, you are the cornerstone of delivering the ultimate user experience. You will be entrusted with the highest level of polish, creativity, and interaction design, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the most innovative areas of our product. This role offers the unique opportunity to have broad creative license, empowering you to lead and create groundbreaking systems and experiences that marry aesthetics with functionality, making data more accessible and actionable for our customers.
Requirements
- Significant software development experience, including 15+ years of experience in product web UI application development and shipping world class experiences.
- Experience with agentic systems and/or coding agents.
- Experience with Agentic SDLC – Building and deploying rich experiences with agents.
- Experience contributing to interactive dashboards and visualization platforms and/or rich data visualization.
- Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance and scale.
- Experience in the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects.
- Experience in modern technologies such as javascript, typescript, react, angular, node.
Nice To Haves
- Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
- Experience with Electron, VS code tools/libraries is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design and build exceptional experiences, ensuring the highest level of polish, creativity, and interaction to solve complex customer problems.
- Define the architectural vision for the CoCo coding agent platform and ensure consistency of design abstractions across the entire product surface
- Develop innovative platform offerings, with a global mindset, and to operate across regional boundaries
- Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management.
- Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as data sharing, cloud infrastructure, and cross-region replication.
- Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
- Motivate others to act, creating a compelling vision for the future, communicating clearly, and using a collaborative leadership approach.
- Build for scale and high performance.
Benefits
- Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
- Create intuitive, elegant, and accessible user interfaces that make a powerful and highly technical product simple to use.
- Learn about and contribute to: Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
- Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
- User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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