Sr. Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning

Databricks
Seattle, San Francisco
Full timeUSD 133,000 - 186,100 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Empathy","Community leadership","Public speaking","Collaboration"]

Serve as Databricks’ voice in the Bay Area AI community, connecting engineering teams with practitioners worldwide. Lead advocacy for agentic systems on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, with deep focus on Genie Agents, Genie Code/One, MLflow, and Databricks Unity AI Gateway. Create production-ready demos, reference implementations, and educational content (videos, notebooks, courseware) while hosting meetups, panels, and forums and using community feedback to influence product and roadmap discussions.

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Databricks
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Sr. Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning

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Job Summary

Serve as Databricks’ voice in the Bay Area AI community, connecting engineering teams with practitioners worldwide. Lead advocacy for agentic systems on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, with deep focus on Genie Agents, Genie Code/One, MLflow, and Databricks Unity AI Gateway. Create production-ready demos, reference implementations, and educational content (videos, notebooks, courseware) while hosting meetups, panels, and forums and using community feedback to influence product and roadmap discussions.
Location: Seattle, San Francisco
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Be a consistent, recognized presence in the Bay Area AI community through talks, meetups, and relationship building with practitioners and founders.
  • •Own medium-to-large advocacy projects end-to-end for the AI and agents area, from scoping through delivery.
  • •Create production-ready reference implementations, starter kits, and demos showing how to build, evaluate, and govern agents on Databricks to reach first value quickly.
  • •Produce and reuse high-quality educational content (videos, sample notebooks, datasets, tutorials, courseware, and blog posts) across formats.
  • •Act as a trusted advisor between the AI community and product teams by gathering/analyzing feedback and influencing roadmap discussions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 133,000 - 186,100 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years combined experience as a developer advocate and in a hands-on technical role (software engineer, ML engineer, data scientist, or solutions architect).
  • •Professional experience building and operating AI/ML systems in addition to presenting about them.
  • •Subject matter expertise in solving AI/ML problems at scale, including agent design, evaluation, and production operations.
  • •Strong Python skills and fluency with agent and ML tooling (including Databricks’ Genie ecosystem and MLflow).
  • •A public portfolio of technical work (tutorials, talks, repositories, or sustained community contributions) and active community leadership.
Experience:5+ yearsDeveloper advocacyAIMachine learningMLOpsAgents
Skills:CommunicationEmpathyCommunity leadershipPublic speakingCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonApache SparkDelta LakeUnity CatalogMLflowApache IcebergGenie AgentsGenie CodeGenie OneDatabricks Unity AI GatewayLakeflowLakebaseAgent BricksLakehouseOmnigent

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
WebsiteLinkedIn