Snowflake

Technology

StaffResearchScientist,ExoticAI

$236–339k Bellevue, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Staff Research Scientist, Exotic AI at Snowflake. Skills: Representation learning, World models, Generative modeling, Policy optimization. Design scalable training infrastructure. Build representation models”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Solve problems; Accelerate impact

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years experience, MS or Ph.D. degree, Software engineering fundamentals, Cross-team technical initiatives, Translate research ideas

Nice to Have

Latent dynamics modeling, Model-based RL, Physics-informed neural networks, Open-source ML frameworks, Foundation model training codebases, Scientific/structured models, Controllable video generation, Neural simulation environments, Publications at top venues

What You'll Do.

Design scalable training infrastructure

Build representation models

Develop latent world models

Learn environment dynamics

Enable model-based reasoning

Architect action/policy model pipelines

Implement vision-language-action models

Build generative simulator frameworks

Produce physically plausible future states

Develop multimodal generative model capabilities

Fuse structured inputs

Lead cross-team technical decisions

Drive research-to-production pathways

Translate prototype systems

Contribute to research community

Collaborate with academic partners

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-team technical initiatives

Full Job Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don't just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset, rapidly testing emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology and careers to the next level. We are hiring a Staff Research Scientist, Exotic AI for our AI Research team. You will build the next-generation training and learning platform for physical AI: models that perceive, reason about, and act within structured environments. This is a greenfield effort at the intersection of representation learning, wor

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