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Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure

Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure P-1215 At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building an

Company

Databricks

Location

New York City, New York; San Francisco, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-05-15T18:58:23+00:00

Databricks is hiring a staff software engineer for the infrastructure behind its AI Research organization. The role builds services that schedule, orchestrate and monitor large-scale training and inference experiments across thousands of GPUs, plus dev tooling and CI for research code, so researchers can move from idea to experiment in minutes. It asks for 5+ years of software engineering, distributed systems experience, a systems language such as C++, Rust, Go or Scala, familiarity with cluster schedulers like Kubernetes, Slurm or Ray, and includes mentoring engineers across compute and AI systems.