Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform (nyc)

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · New York, NY · Engineering

Databricks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their AI Platform team in NYC. This role involves creating novel GenAI agent interfaces for complex workflows, leading full-stack development, and driving the strategy for end-to-end AI feature development. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in web technologies, a strong product mindset, and hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, prompt design, and production AI monitoring.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create novel, never-seen-before interfaces for GenAI agents that manage complex workflows while keeping the human in the loop through inspectability and transparency
  2. Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth
  3. Lead by example with hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences
  4. Enable mechanisms that can drive product-led growth, through seamless onboarding and sharing capabilities
  5. Direct the future of intuitive agentic applications at Databricks, in collaboration with cross-functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and designers

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Demonstrated product mindset
  • Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
  • 5+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go)
  • Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products
  • Deep familiarity with LLMs and generative AI, including hands-on experience with techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt design, evaluation, and monitoring AI quality and safety in production

Nice to have

  • You care that AI features feel intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful, not just bolted on to an existing app
  • Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.

What the JD emphasized

  • 0-to-1 environment
  • High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments
  • Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products
  • Deep familiarity with LLMs and generative AI
  • hands-on experience with techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt design, evaluation, and monitoring AI quality and safety in production

Other signals

  • building new products from the ground up
  • 0-to-1 environment
  • end-to-end generative AI products
  • LLMs and generative AI
  • RAG
  • prompt design
  • evaluation
  • monitoring AI quality and safety in production