# Staff Software Engineer, Agent Quality

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: New York City, New York
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000-$265,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.

The Databricks AI Research organisation is pushing the frontier of next-generation enterprise AI.

As a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality, you will be a founding member of a new team focused on evaluating and continuously improving Databricks' AI Agents.

## The impact you will have

- Stand up the foundational evaluation infrastructure for Genie Agents, enabling rigorous benchmarking, regression detection, and quality measurement across research and product teams.

- Build the flywheel that connects evaluation results back into agent improvement , closing the loop between production signals, training, and iterative development.

- Shape the long-term technical direction for agent quality infrastructure, with real influence over how Databricks measures and improves its first-party agents and agent development platform.

## What we look for

- 6+ years industry experience building software systems

- Strong Python programming skills, with experience building production or research infrastructure

- Experience building or operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or large-scale infrastructure with a focus on reliability, correctness, and operational maturity

- Ability to design pragmatic but rigorous systems that produce trustworthy, reproducible signals for complex applications

- Comfort working across ambiguous research and product boundaries, and partnering with both researchers and engineers to turn ideas into robust internal platforms

## Nice to have

- Experience with devtools, CI/CD platforms, testing frameworks, observability tooling, or benchmarking infrastructure

- Familiarity with how LLM or agent quality is measured , whether through evals, experimentation platforms, or production monitoring

## Pay Range Transparency

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.

Local Pay Range $200,000-$265,000 USD

## Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- distributed systems
- data pipelines
- large-scale infrastructure

### Nice to have
- devtools
- CI/CD platforms
- testing frameworks
- observability tooling
- benchmarking infrastructure

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