AI Engineer (GenAI)

Location: Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia metropolitan area, United States; remote work is available, with periodic on-site work and customer travel every 4–8 weeks as needed. U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government Secret clearance are required.

Salary: $182,000–$250,208 USD annually, with potential annual performance bonus and equity.

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data and AI Platform used by organizations worldwide to build and scale data, analytics, AI applications, and agents.

What you will do

• Develop cutting-edge generative AI solutions to solve customer problems.
• Own production rollouts of consumer-facing and internal generative AI applications.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor across different customer domains.
• Present technical work at conferences and contribute to thought leadership.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap.

Requirements

• Experience building generative AI applications using RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, and related techniques.
• Experience with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy.
• Expertise deploying, evaluating, and optimizing production-grade generative AI applications.
• Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with tools such as pandas, scikit-learn, and PyTorch.
• Experience deploying production-grade machine learning systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience, plus the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark for large-scale distributed datasets.
• Active Secret or higher security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, customer-facing AI engineering environment.
• Opportunities for lifelong learning and work on current GenAI, LLMOps, and machine learning technologies.
• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks.
• Potential annual performance bonus and equity.