Staff Applied AI Engineer, Snorkel AI
Forward Deployed
$210-275k
OTE
+ Equity in the form of employee stock options
Annual travel up to 25%
1+ day a week in office
The AI data research lab
Job no longer available
The AI data research lab
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$210-275k
OTE
+ Equity in the form of employee stock options
Annual travel up to 25%
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to solve their most impactful problems through data-centric AI.
Role
Who you are
- This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, working directly with customers, and bridging the gap between AI technology and business value
- 5+ years of customer-facing experience in the design and implementation of AI/ML solutions
- Proficient in Python
- Expertise in AI frameworks and libraries, such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, and OpenAI APIs
- Experience leading strategic, customer-facing initiatives and collaborating with business stakeholders to ensure ML solutions drive successful business outcomes, with a strong focus on teaching and enablement
- Outstanding presentation skills to technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and balance priorities across multiple projects at once
- B.S. degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or comparable degree/experience
What the job involves
- As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll research and utilize established and state-of-the-art Gen AI and machine learning (ML) techniques to successfully deliver solutions to our customers.
- You’ll work directly with our customers to understand their business and technical needs.
- You will design and deliver AI solutions, either by leveraging Snorkel Flow or developing custom approaches when needed, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to help generalize and integrate these learnings back into the Snorkel Flow platform. We move fast and are constantly prototyping new ways to deliver value to our customers
- Partner with customers to build and deploy impactful Gen AI and machine learning solutions, from use case scoping and data exploration to model development and deployment
- This may involve leveraging Snorkel Flow or designing custom approaches using state-of-the-art tools, with the goal of delivering real business value and informing the evolution of the Snorkel platform
- Develop and implement state of the art AI techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, prompt engineering, AI agents, ML model training, and optimizing model performance for real-world deployment to maximize business impact
- Forge and manage relationships with our customers’ leadership and stakeholders to ensure successful development and deployment of AI projects with Snorkel Flow
- Lead stakeholder education on quantitative capabilities, helping them to understand the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and what problems are best-suited for Snorkel AI
- Serve as the voice of our customers for new AI paradigms, data science workflows, and share customer feedback to product teams
- Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many enablement workshops to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using Snorkel AI
Our take
Demand for AI is increasing in almost every industry, but the machine learning that fuels it is tedious to set up. In order to train machine learning algorithms, training data must be labelled manually, and this contributes to expenses in time, money and resources when integrating AI within a business.
Snorkel AI develops programmatic approaches to data labelling in order to automate the setup process of machine learning and decrease the required timeframe for a business to begin providing AI services. In addition to these automated data categorization services, the company also integrates data training, management, and analysis into a unified AI-deployment platform.
The complex computer science behind AI setup has resulted in many businesses without computer science backgrounds being left behind, and Snorkel AI has set this as their target audience. And recently, the company raised some serious funding which it plans to use to expand the company;'s engineering, research, and go-to-market efforts.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Aug 2021
$85m
SERIES C
Total funding: $235m
Company benefits
- Health: Snorkelers and their dependents are covered by comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Wellness: All Snorkelers get a yearly wellness stipend to use on anything related to health and well-being.
- PTO and rest days: We provide unlimited personal time off so you can find your work-life balance. Plus, two company-wide rest days per quarter in addition to company holidays.
- One global team: From our headquarters in Redwood City, CA, to regional offices in San Francisco and New York, we work together as one global team.
- Events: Get to know your fellow Snorkelers outside of work! We host regular events and learning opportunities for our teams across our offices and virtually to connect, have fun, and grow.
- Family leave: Snorkel offers generous parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents based on eligibility.
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Alex Ratner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied at Harvard and received a PhD from Stanford. They are also an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
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