# Sr. Engineering Manager, AI Runtime

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Mountain View, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $228,600-$297,120 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

At Databricks, we enable data teams to solve the world's toughest problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the team owning both the product experience and the foundational infrastructure of AI Runtime (AIR).

## The impact you will have:

- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for the Custom Training product and its foundational infrastructure.

- Define and own the product and technical roadmap for AIR, balancing customer experience, functionality, and foundational investments.

- Collaborate closely with product, research, platform, infrastructure teams, and customers to drive end-to-end delivery.

- Drive architectural decisions and product design for managed GPU training at scale.

- Advocate for customer needs through direct engagement.

- Build observability and reliability practices for long-running, multi-node training jobs.

- Partner with recruiting to attract, hire, and develop top-tier engineering talent.

## What we look for:

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in engineering management.

- Track record building and operating managed GPU training infrastructure at scale.

- Deep familiarity with distributed training frameworks and parallelism strategies.

- Experience with training resilience patterns.

- Understanding of GPU performance fundamentals.

- Experience building platform products with clear SLAs.

- Strong cross-functional leadership across platform, product, and research teams.

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.

Pay Range Transparency The pay range for this role is $228,600-$297,120 USD.

## Benefits

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

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- engineering management
- GPU training infrastructure
- distributed training frameworks
- parallelism strategies
- training resilience patterns
- GPU performance fundamentals
- platform products
- cross-functional leadership

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