Principal Software Engineer, Snorkel AI
$270-300k
More information about location
3+ days 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
$270-300k
More information about location
3+ days 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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 12+ years experience in designing and building customer-facing software systems for cloud-native applications
- Experience at high-growth technology startups
- Experience building software products for large enterprise customers
- Experience with architecting and developing production web-scale systems (including monitoring, telemetry, performance, reliability, triage, and debuggability)
- Deep experience with Python, distributed computing, and cloud platforms
- Passion for promoting technical communication, mentorship, and improving engineering culture
Desirable
- 16+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience designing software development platforms for machine learning or data-focused practitioners
- Deep experience with AI/ML frameworks
- Experience with Typescript and React
- Experience with engineering management and/or developing growth programs for engineering organizations (e.g. career ladders, mentorship, upskilling)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to shape our product and technical systems to meet the AI challenges of today and tomorrow
- As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll work across teams and across the stack to deliver major new features and infrastructure, to improve our practices and culture, and to align Engineering on a shared technical vision
- You will be a key technical advisor to company leadership, act as a mentor and role model for every engineer, and think years ahead about how Snorkel AI can deliver on its technical mission to democratize AI through data
- There is no concise focus for your role—you must be excited to take on the biggest, most ambiguous, and most rewarding challenges that arise
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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