Staff Partner Engineer, AI Partnerships

Highlights

• Lead technical relationship with AI labs like Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini.
• Own joint roadmap and build integrations connecting Databricks and partners.
• Build POCs and reference architectures customers deploy in production.

What they offer

• annual performance bonus
• equity
• comprehensive benefits and perks

Ideal candidate

A customer-obsessed partner engineer with 10+ years shaping AI systems who thrives navigating complex partnerships and translating between product and engineering to ship joint innovation.

Requirements

• 10+ years in field engineering, consulting, platform architecture, or AI systems development
• Depth in how AI systems are built and run in production across serving, retrieval and agents
• Hands-on engineering skills to develop POCs, build demos and debug integrations
• Experience with Python and REST APIs and SDKs
• Established relationships within product and engineering of major AI labs and cloud providers
• Experience in strategic technical partnerships navigating multi-company initiatives
• Deep knowledge of the Databricks platform and designing AI architectures spanning partner products
• Communication and influence skills presenting to engineering teams and executives
• Availability to travel globally to partner sites, conferences and events