# Senior Machine Learning Engineer - GenAI Platform

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $166k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, Go, C++, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning Platforms, Generative AI, Model Training, Model Serving, Gpu Orchestration
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> Build customer-facing generative AI platform covering ML lifecycle from data generation to agent-building. Requires 4+ years experience in distributed systems and ML platforms, with strong product ownership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Play a key role in the end-to-end design and implementation of our product which is a platform for powering use cases across training and serving of generative AI models
- Work closely with both customers and internal ML researchers to identify key areas of development for our generative AI platform
- Have strong end-to-end product ownership, translating product requirements into user interfaces and backend distributed system design and own end-to-end implementation
- Design and build the core platform infrastructure that supports our customer-facing product features
- Ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of the backend distributed systems that power all aspects of our product

## Requirements
- **4+ years** of hands-on programming experience with at least one modern language such as **Python**, **Scala**, **Go**, or **C++**
- Strong sense of distributed systems design and experience building large-scale systems
- Experience building ML platform systems for applications in the ML model development lifecycle such as data preparation, model training, model evaluation, and model serving
- Direct experience developing ML models is a plus but not required
- Strong sense of end-to-end product ownership as well as intuition for both robust system design and product usability
- Effective communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical ideas to cross-disciplinary internal and external stakeholders

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