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Staff Software Engineer- Foundation Model Inference

Databricks · San Francisco, California

Posted about 2 months ago

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This role has been open
66 days
Databricks's roles stay open a median of 66 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Databricks's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Databricks
high
741 stale, 25 reposted of 879 open
Hiring momentum
1112 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-08

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About this role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Foundation Model Inference team at Databricks, you will be responsible for building and optimizing infrastructure for large-scale inference workloads, collaborating with various teams to enhance the performance and reliability of AI models. Your work will involve improving distributed AI workloads and shaping the interaction between developers, data scientists, and AI on the Databricks platform.

Our read on this posting2.0out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 8+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
  • Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, or GPU orchestration
  • Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability

Nice to have

  • Exposure to platforms like SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML
  • Contributions to OSS projects like MLflow, PyTorch, Ray, vLLM, SGLang
  • Built developer platforms or internal tools supporting AI workflows

Worth weighing

  • Local pay range is $190,000 — $265,000 USD, but actual compensation may vary based on several factors.
  • No specific benefits listed in the posting, only a general statement about comprehensive benefits offered.
  • The role involves working with partner models and self-hosted models, which may require familiarity with various AI technologies.

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Listed by Databricks on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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