Applied AI Engineer - AI Solutions

About Snorkel

At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn't start with the model, it starts with the data. We're on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes between 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. We work with some of the world's largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before.

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 — either by leveraging Snorkel Flow or developing custom approaches when needed. 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 Flow's next generation of AI tooling.

Main Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Forge and manage relationships with our customers' leadership and stakeholders to ensure successful development and deployment of AI projects with Snorkel Flow.
• 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 understand the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.
• 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. Annual travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 (e.g., msgspec), and orchestration tooling (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.
• Outstanding presentation skills to technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and balance priorities across multiple projects at once.

Compensation range for Tier 1 locations of San Francisco Bay Area: $172K - $300K OTE. All offers also include equity in the form of employee stock options.

Locations: Redwood City, CA (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); New York, NY (Hybrid)