Staff Software Engineer, Foundation Model Inference

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As part of the AI team, you'll build the platforms and products that power everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and Vector Search. You'll be joining a high-agency, high-visibility team operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure — with deep ties to research, product, and real-world enterprise use cases. Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing businesses, helping thousands of our customers democratize AI within their organizations. We're building the products and infrastructure that power the next generation of AI.

What it asks for · 6

• 8+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
• Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
• Strong product and ownership mindset, with a focus on shipping user-facing value
• Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, or GPU orchestration
• Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability
• Strong programming skills in Scala, Go, or Python

Also a plus

• Exposure to platforms like SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML
• Built products that support AI workflows

What the job covers

• Build LLM infrastructure powering large-scale inference workloads for customers through partner models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and self-hosted models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, Llama)
• Shape the direction of the FMAPI product — from roadmap to execution — by leveraging deep customer empathy and direct engagement with enterprise users and model providers
• Improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads
• Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences
• Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• model8×
• product7×
• data6×
• customers4×
• experience4×
• platform4×
• build3×
• deep3×
• enterprise3×
• inference3×
• serving3×
• apis2×
• building2×
• distributed2×
• engineering2×

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