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RAG Systems & Vector Database Engineer — Snowflake
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Generative & Agentic AI · Verified Opening #50

RAG Systems & Vector Database Engineer

business Snowflake location_on Bellevue, WA (Remote) home_work Remote Full Time

Compensation

$165K – 230K/yr

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Published Date

4 weeks ago

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Work Arrangement

Remote • Bellevue, WA

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Open Positions

2 openings

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Experience Level

Senior

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About the opportunity

Engineer high-throughput vector indexing, hybrid semantic search, and document intelligence on Snowflake Cortex AI.

Snowflake Cortex brings LLMs and vector search directly into the Data Cloud. We are seeking a Vector Database & RAG Systems Engineer to build scalable vector index algorithms (HNSW, IVFFlat), semantic chunking pipelines, and low-latency retrieval systems powering enterprise generative AI applications.
task Core Responsibilities

What you will do

  • check_circle Design and implement distributed vector index algorithms and hybrid keyword/dense search engines.
  • check_circle Optimize embeddings generation pipelines processing millions of enterprise documents per hour.
  • check_circle Develop automated RAG evaluation suites measuring retrieval recall, precision, and context faithfulness (Ragas).
  • check_circle Integrate Snowflake Cortex LLM functions with LangChain and LlamaIndex SDKs.
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What we are looking for

  • arrow_circle_right 5+ years software engineering experience with deep knowledge of search systems, vector indexing, or information retrieval.
  • arrow_circle_right Strong programming skills in C++, Go, or Python and experience with distributed query engines.
  • arrow_circle_right Hands-on expertise with vector search libraries (FAISS, HNSWLib, Qdrant, Pinecone).
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Skills & Tech Stack

Vector DB RAG HNSW Snowflake Cortex Python Information Retrieval
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