Staff Applied AI Engineer - Pre-Sales

Snorkel AI is hiring a Staff Applied AI Engineer on the Pre-Sales team. You'll partner with Sales on technical strategy and evaluations, leading structured technical discovery with prospects, translating findings into well-defined GenAI solution architectures, and authoring proposals and Statements of Work for enterprise clients.

What you'll do:

• Partner with Sales on technical strategy and evaluations
• Lead structured technical discovery with prospects
• Translate discovery findings into well-defined GenAI solution architectures
• Design, build, and deliver bespoke demos, including evaluation pipelines, dataset strategy, retrieval-augmented generation systems, fine-tuning workflows, prompt engineering strategies, and agentic architectures
• Author proposals and Statements of Work
• Develop reusable patterns into reference architectures
• Travel up to 25% annually

What we're looking for:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Math/Statistics (or equivalent)
• 8+ years in customer-facing technical roles
• Hands-on Python proficiency (scikit-learn, pandas, Spark)
• Familiarity with modern GenAI stack: LLM ecosystems, RAG, vector databases, synthetic dataset curation, evaluation workflows, LLM orchestration, agent authoring tools, prompt engineering, fine-tuned models
• Rapid prototyping ability
• Strong presentation skills for technical and executive audiences

Locations: NYC, SF Bay Area, Redwood City, Austin, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, Remote (US)
Salary: $190,000 - $300,000 USD OTE + equity