Frontend AI Principal Engineer - Cortex Code

Snowflake
CA-Menlo Park
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for senior frontend architects who build polished, AI-driven user experiences and thrive in cross-functional, fast-moving environments. The role requires 15+ years of product web UI development and deep expertise in modern web architecture and agentic systems.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers with over 15 years of experience shipping world-class product web UI applications.
    — “15+ years of experience in product web UI application development
  • Technical leaders who have served as architects or tech leads on high-impact customer-facing projects.
    — “architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects
  • Creators with a passion for designing innovative, aesthetically rich interfaces for complex technical products.
    — “highest level of polish, creativity, and interaction design
  • Collaborative innovators who work across teams like data sharing, cloud infrastructure, and cross-region replication.
    — “close coordination with several sister teams such as data sharing, cloud infrastructure

Things to consider

  • The role involves working across regional boundaries, which may include coordination with global teams.
    — “operate across regional boundaries
  • You will be expected to define architectural vision and maintain design consistency across the entire product.
    — “Define the architectural vision for the CoCo coding agent platform

How to stand out

  • Showcase specific examples of building and deploying rich experiences with agentic systems.
    — “Experience with Agentic SDLC – Building and deploying rich experiences with agents
  • Highlight leadership in product vision and team planning, not just technical execution.
    — “Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning
  • Demonstrate experience with interactive dashboards, visualization platforms, or rich data visualization.
    — “contributing to interactive dashboards and visualization platforms and/or rich data visualization
  • Emphasize experience with modern web technologies like TypeScript, React, and scalable application design.
    — “modern technologies such as javascript, typescript, react, angular, node
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Principal

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What success looks like

  • design and build exceptional experiences
  • define architectural vision
  • deliver features requiring close coordination
Typical background
software engineeringweb development

Skills & requirements

Required

Web UI Application DevelopmentInteractive DashboardsData VisualizationAgentic SystemsCoding Agents

Preferred

Distributed System DevelopmentAPI Design PatternsPerformance Tuning

Stack & domain

Web UI Application DevelopmentAgentic SystemsCoding AgentsInteractive DashboardsVisualization PlatformsDistributed System DevelopmentModern Web Applications Design ArchitectureAPI Design PatternsPerformance And ScaleInnate CuriosityLow-egoDynamic And Fast-moving EnvironmentsExperimental MindsetCollaborationMotivationVisionCommunicationLeadershipScale And High PerformanceAIData Visualization

About the role

Original posting from Snowflake via Ashby

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 http://youtube.com/watch?v=hDYIq5hbU-g&t=80.

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.

AS THE FRONTEND AI PRINCIPAL ENGINEER YOU WILL:

  • 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.

OUR IDEAL FRONTEND AI PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

  • 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.
  • Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
  • 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.
  • Experience with Electron, VS code tools/libraries is a plus.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

BUILDING CUTTING EDGE CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES IS COMPLEX, AND OUR ENGINEERING TEAM SURMOUNTS THE OBSTACLES. AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:

  • 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.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com

Source: Snowflake careers (Ashby)

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