Founding AI/ML Engineer

Snow Leopard is on a mission to empower AI developers to build production-ready apps that solve real-world problems. We aim to unlock the immense potential of AI by helping teams use live business data in real-time and on-demand, no matter where it lives.

If you’re passionate about the intersection of AI and data, and looking for a place where your work will have direct impact in shaping the industry, we’d love to meet you.

About the Role:

We are looking for a founding AI engineer (architect) who has experienced the challenges of combining live data with LLMs first-hand. We love building technology that empowers developers to do their best work, and want to work with someone who not only enjoys working on challenging problems, but also has a passion for building products that are useful to people and help solve real-world problems – Someone who wants to define the way AI-powered apps are built. Someone who is excited to shape the AI industry over the next decade+, because that is what we are out to do and we’ll settle for nothing less.

Responsibilities:

As Snow Leopard’s founding AI engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and building the LLM-powered systems that provide the magic of Snow Leopard for production data workflows of AI apps. You will play a critical role in defining the technical design of the Snow Leopard platform to realize its value to users. It is an exciting opportunity to build not just a product and platform, but the future of applied AI.

Who we’re looking for:

• 3+ years of experience building applications with LLMs and ML models
• Proficiency with the AI stack and tools (Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)
• Has directly deployed/run/maintained machine learning models
• Has an opinion on how to best work with LLMs, tradeoff between fine tuning and RAG, etc.
• Experience with building systems and infrastructure would be ideal

— Deployed systems that interact with data sources and LLMs

— Worked with databases, writing and understanding schemas and SQL

Someone excited to not just work in AI, but help shape how businesses build useful AI-powered apps with their data in a simple, clean way.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to be a founding team member where your work will help define not just the product and technical innovation, but the future of the data+AI stack and the applied AI industry
• Compensation: annual salary + early-stage equity
• Benefits: Healthcare (medical/vision/dental), 401K matching, unlimited PTO and sick leave