Senior/Staff System Research Engineer - LLM Inference Optimization
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Bellevue, WA · Posted November 2, 2026
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November 2026
- #1Best cities for entry-level jobs that want AI skills in the Pacific Northwest25% · of 12
- #1Best cities for AI-skill jobs in the Pacific Northwest28% · of 17
- #1Best cities for mid-career professionals in the Pacific Northwest66% · of 17
- #2Cities with the most jobs that do not need a four-year degree in the Pacific Northwest117 jobs · of 8
- #2Best cities for mid-career professionals in the West Coast66% · of 71
- #3Best cities for software and engineering jobs in the Pacific Northwest421 openings · of 14
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
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About the job
...Snowflake AI Research team and advance the state of the art in LLM inference systems and optimization . Our mission is to... ...configurations with minimal manual tuning. We embrace AI-native engineering , using AI not only as the workload we optimize, but also as a...