Staff Applied AI Engineer, Snorkel AI
Enterprise AI Solutions
$230-360k
OTE
+ Equity
Annual travel up to 25%
The AI data research lab
Be an early applicant
The AI data research lab
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$230-360k
OTE
+ Equity
Annual travel up to 25%
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to solve their most impactful problems through data-centric AI.
Role
Who you are
- B.S. degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or comparable degree/experience
- 3+ years of customer-facing experience in the design and implementation of AI/ML solutions
- Proficiency in Python, including strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals (e.g., modular design, testing, profiling, packaging) and experience with modern Python constructs and libraries for type validation and typed data modeling (e.g., pydantic), building type-safe systems (e.g., mypy), testing (e.g., pytest), packaging and environment configuration (e.g., poetry), API and service frameworks (e.g., FastAPI), serialization and structured data handling (e.g., msgspec), and orchestration tooling relevant to ML deployment (e.g., Ray, Airflow)
- Expertise across the Applied AI stack, spanning classical ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn), deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), foundation-model ecosystems (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers), vector/embedding tooling (e.g., FAISS), data processing frameworks (e.g., pandas, Spark), retrieval/RAG tooling (e.g., Chroma, Weaviate), synthetic dataset curation, evaluation workflows, and LLM orchestration, workflow, agent authoring tools (e.g., LlamaIndex, LangGraph, CrewAI)
- 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
What the job involves
- As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll research and utilize state-of-the-art Gen AI and machine learning (ML) techniques to successfully deliver solutions to our customers
- You will work directly with our customers to understand their business and technical needs and design and deliver AI solutions to solve them
- You will also help define Snorkel’s Applied AI tooling by translating repeatable real-world challenges into reusable solution recipes, workflows, best practices, and platform-level capabilities that become part of Snorkel’s next generation of AI tooling
- We move fast and are constantly prototyping and innovating new ways to deliver value to our customers
- This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, bridging the gap between AI technology and business value, working directly with customers, keeping up-to date with AI research, and standardizing bespoke solutions into internal recipes and staying naturally curious about the infrastructure that underpin the Applied AI stack end-to-end
- 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 will involve designing custom approaches using state-of-the-art tools, with the goal of delivering real business value and informing the evolution of Snorkel’s tooling
- Develop and implement state of the art AI systems such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning pipelines, prompt engineering recipes and agentic workflows
- Create augmented real-world datasets and comprehensive evaluation workflows to ensure model reliability, transparency, and stakeholder trust. A data- and evaluation-first mindset is essential for success in this role
- Forge and manage relationships with our customers’ leadership and stakeholders to ensure successful development and deployment of AI projects
- Collaborate closely with pre-sales Solutions and Product teams to map customer needs to existing capabilities, prioritize roadmap gaps, and guide successful project setup
- Work with other Applied AI Engineers to standardize solutions and contribute to internal tooling and best practices
- 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
- Annual travel up to 25%
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
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
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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