Snowflake
Technology
StaffResearchScientist,ExoticAI
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“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.
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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