Snowflake

Technology

StaffResearchScientist,ExoticAI

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

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The Brief

“Staff Research Scientist, Exotic AI at Snowflake. Skills: Representation learning, World models, Generative modeling, Policy optimization. Design and build scalable training infrastructure. Develop latent world models”

Industry & Context.

Technology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years of relevant experience, MS or Ph. D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience, Software engineering fundamentals, Track record of translating research ideas into working systems at scale

Nice to Have

Experience with latent dynamics modeling, Model-based RL experience, Physics-informed neural networks experience, Contributions to open-source ML frameworks, Foundation model training codebases contributions, Background in scientific/structured models, Experience building controllable video generation, Neural simulation environments experience, Publications at top venues

What You'll Do.

Design and build scalable training infrastructure

Develop latent world models

Architect and implement action/policy model pipelines

Build generative simulator frameworks

Develop multimodal generative model capabilities

Lead cross-team technical decisions

Drive research-to-production pathways

Translate prototype systems into platform capabilities

Contribute to the broader research community

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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