Hiring: Principal / Staff Applied Research Scientist Company: Snowflake Location: Menlo Park, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:23:17 Target Skills & Keywords : Iceberg, LLM, Snowflake About the job Experience: •8+ years applying theoretical computer science to large-scale software systems — ideally cloud data platforms, distributed systems, or developer infrastructure. Required Skills: •Lead research projects that apply formal methods, program analysis, automated reasoning, and AI-driven techniques (including code generation and modeling) to real problems in our cloud data platform. •Translate research ideas into prototypes, then into shipped capabilities that move concrete business metrics — quality, velocity, reliability, and operational performance at scale. •Partner closely with engineering leaders, product managers, and key customers to identify high-leverage opportunities and turn them into deliverables. •Influence the engineering and product roadmap; advise leaders on which research directions are pragmatic and which are not. •Train and uplevel engineering teams on new methods, and scale those methods across the organization. •Maintain expertise at the frontier of the field through publications, conference participation, open-source contributions, and patent filings. •Formal methods — e.g., model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT, program verification, type systems, or program analysis. •Distributed systems — designing, reasoning about, or verifying large-scale concurrent and distributed systems. Compensation: •$236,000 - $339,200 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!