Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMs

Job summary

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to serve as a technical pillar within our AI research organization. You will not just execute on roadmaps—you will define them.

• Arctic LLM: Enterprise foundation models optimized for performance and efficiency
• Arctic-Text2SQL: Post-trained reasoning models with frontier-level quality at a fraction of cost and latency
• Snowflake Intelligence: Brought research to production through agentic innovations in multi-step reasoning, Deep Research for structured and unstructured insights, and system…
• Arctic Inference: High-performance LLM serving stack (Shift Parallelism, SwiftKV), open-sourced and powering Snowflake Cortex
• Arctic Long-Context Training: Enables 1M+ token context training on a single H200 GPU

What they're looking for

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field with a strong publication record
• Expertise in LLM development (training, fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training)
• Experience with agentic systems (multi-agent systems, tool use, or agent optimization)
• Strong systems thinking under real-world constraints (latency, cost, reliability)
• Proven technical leadership and end-to-end ownership

Tech stack

• Snowflake