Description
At Databricks, we enable data teams to solve complex problems by building and running the world's best data and AI platform.
As a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning, you'll be the voice of Databricks in the Bay Area AI community, linking our engineering teams with the global community of data scientists and AI engineers.
Your focus will be on how practitioners build, evaluate, govern, and ship agentic systems on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, particularly with Genie Agents, Genie Code, Genie One, MLflow, and Databricks Unity AI Gateway.
You'll translate insights from customers and the community into reference implementations, demos, and production-ready content.
This role involves delivering talks, hosting panels and meetups, creating blogs and video content, developing courseware, and meeting one-on-one with influential AI engineers and data scientists.
Reporting to the Head of Developer Relations, you'll collaborate with fellow Developer Advocates and program managers to create and execute a cohesive developer relations strategy.
The impact you will have
- Be a consistent presence in the Bay Area AI community, speaking at local user groups and meetups, and building relationships with practitioners and founders.
- Own medium-to-large advocacy projects end-to-end, from scoping through delivery, for the AI and agents area.
- Create production-ready reference implementations, starter kits, and demos that show practitioners how to build, evaluate, and govern agents on Databricks.
- Create high-quality educational content, including videos, sample notebooks, datasets, tutorials, courseware, and blog posts.
- Drive awareness and adoption of Databricks AI capabilities through speaking engagements at industry events and conferences.
- Act as a trusted advisor between the AI community and product teams, influencing roadmap discussions.
- Expand and nurture the Databricks AI and ML community by growing meetups and user groups.
- Gather and analyze community feedback to drive continuous improvement of Databricks products and services.
- Mentor and unblock less-experienced advocates in content, demos, and public speaking.
What we look for
- 5+ years of combined experience as a developer advocate and in a hands-on technical role.
- Professional experience building and operating AI or ML systems.
- Subject matter knowledge of solving AI and ML problems at scale.
- Comprehensive understanding of the Databricks AI ecosystem.
- Strong Python skills and fluency with the current agent and ML tooling landscape.
- Based in the Bay Area and willing to be out in the community regularly.
- Active participation and recognized leadership in AI and ML community forums.
- A public portfolio of technical work.
- Proven track record in nurturing developer communities.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Deep empathy for developer needs.
- Adept at collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
Benefits
Databricks offers comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.