Databricks

Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform (NYC)

Databricks$166K — $225K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Demonstrated product mindset for transforming customer problems into MVPs
  • Ability to design intuitive AI features that integrate seamlessly into apps
  • High ownership and action-oriented in rapid development environments
  • Strong collaboration skills across product, engineering, and design teams
  • Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular)
  • 5+ years experience with server-side technologies (e.g., Node.js, Python)
  • Proven experience building end-to-end generative AI products
  • Familiarity with LLMs and generative AI techniques like prompt design.

Responsibilities

  • Create innovative interfaces for GenAI agents managing complex workflows
  • Collaborate with teams to build intuitive and scalable user solutions
  • Lead hands-on full-stack development for user-centric experiences
  • Enable product-led growth through seamless onboarding and sharing
  • Direct the development of intuitive agentic applications across teams
  • Drive strategy to build reliable and performant AI features.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible work hours and remote work options
  • Stock options and equity participation
  • Generous paid time off and holiday policy
  • Continuous learning and professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
P-1606

As one of the first engineers in the NYC Engineering office, you'll have the opportunity to be part of a small, nimble team that's innovating to build new products from the ground up. Our goal is to leverage the power of Databricks in data & AI to deliver vertical AI applications for both technical and business users. This will be a true 0-to-1 environment, combining the excitement of a startup with the resources of a tech leader like Databricks.

The impact you'll have:
  • Create novel, never-seen-before interfaces for GenAI agents that manage complex workflows while keeping the human in the loop through inspectability and transparency
  • Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth
  • Lead by example with hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences
  • Enable mechanisms that can drive product-led growth, through seamless onboarding and sharing capabilities
  • Direct the future of intuitive agentic applications at Databricks, in collaboration with cross-functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and designers
  • Drive the strategy for building end-to-end AI feature development by designing, building, and maintaining systems that are scalable, reliable, and performant.

What we look for:
  • 5+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Demonstrated product mindset with the ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into scrappy MVPs and iterate quickly based on data and user feedback.
  • You care that AI features feel intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful, not just bolted on to an existing app
  • High ownership and bias for action in 01 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption.
  • Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.
  • 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.


Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Local Pay Range

$166,000-$225,000 USD

BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.

About Databricks

Databricks is a unified analytics platform that provides data engineering, collaborative data science, and machine learning capabilities. The company was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine. Databricks provides a cloud-based platform that allows data teams to collaborate and build data pipelines, run machine learning models, and perform advanced analytics. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $38 billion as of November 2021.
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2,000 employees
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Founded
2013

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