Staff Software Engineer, AI Runtime
Databricks Mosaic · Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California · Mountain View, California
CHECKED 14H AGO
Infrastructureonsitestaff$190k–$265k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build a serverless GPU training platform spanning thousands of accelerators.
- Power custom training from fine-tuning to frontier-scale foundation models.
- Keep week-long multi-node jobs running with resilient, high-throughput systems.
What they offer
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits
Ideal candidate
A veteran distributed-systems builder passionate about large-scale AI training who thrives on hard performance and reliability challenges and leads through vision, mentorship, and end-to-end ownership.
Requirements
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems with depth in GPU training infrastructure, HPC, or ML systems
- Hands-on experience with distributed training frameworks and data, tensor, pipeline, and sequence parallelism for large models
- Strong understanding of training resilience patterns including checkpointing, failure detection, and automatic recovery for multi-node jobs
- Solid grasp of GPU performance fundamentals including accelerator architecture
Lab profile
About Databricks Mosaic
Builds unified data analytics and AI platform to productionize AI applications.
What they build
- Databricks platform
- Unified Data Analytics and AI
- AI platform
Known for
- Forward-deployed AI engineering
- Productionizing first-of-kind AI applications
- Customer platform adoption and scale
- Cross-functional engineering and product collaboration