Software Engineer Intern (AI/ML) - Fall 2026
About The Position
Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise and is seeking AI-native thinkers who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. Interns will treat AI as a high-trust collaborator, possess innate curiosity, and thrive in dynamic, fast-moving environments with an experimental mindset. The role involves rapidly testing emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results, and contributing to redefining the future of how work gets done. Snowflake's cloud data platform combines data warehousing, big data platforms, and cloud elasticity. With the explosion of language models, Snowflake aims to democratize the ability to glean insights from structured and unstructured data using AI and natural language. This internship is for dedicated students passionate about groundbreaking technology who want to create a lasting future for Snowflake and themselves.
Requirements
- Must be actively enrolled in an accredited college/university program during the time of the internship.
- Desired class level: Masters, or PhD.
- Desired majors: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Math, or related field.
- Recommended coursework: artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, federated learning, efficient LLMs, information retrieval, predictive & generative modeling, natural language processing, differential privacy, cloud computing, distributed & operating systems.
- Research or publications in AI, ML, NLP, or CV or major contributions to open source.
- Excellent programming skills in python, Golang, and Java.
- Experience with working as a part of a team.
- Dedication and passion for technology.
- Follow company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
- Abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of duties.
- Keep customer information secure and confidential.
Nice To Haves
- Preferred knowledge of Pytorch or CUDA.
Responsibilities
- Build production-grade AI systems (agents, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations) and deploy them with strategic customers.
- Develop infrastructure for feature stores, MLOps, and highly optimized runtimes for both structured and unstructured data.
- Create AI systems that reason over governed data and ship features like design prompts and agent workflows.
- Build intelligent agents to automate SQL code conversion and data migrations using Java, Go, and LangGraph.
- Develop low-latency fuzzy search (Cortex Search), natural language interfaces for business questions (Cortex Analyst), and custom AI agents.
- Integrate generative AI directly into database queries to handle multimodal data natively.
Benefits
- Paid, full-time internships
- Post-internship career opportunities (full-time and/or additional internships)
- Exposure to a fast-paced, fun, and inclusive culture
- A chance to work with world-class experts on challenging projects
- Opportunity to provide meaningful contributions to a real system used by customers
- High level of access to supervisors (manager and mentor), detailed direction without micromanagement, feedback throughout your internship, and a final evaluation
- Treated as a member of the Snowflake team, included in company meetings/activities
- Flexible hours
- Casual dress code
- Accommodations to work from home
- Swag
- Catered lunches
- Access to gaming consoles
- Recreational games
- Happy hours
- Company outings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
