Staff Research Engineer, Data Agents

Databricks
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 190,000 - 270,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Experience: 2+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Join the Databricks AI Research Data Agents team to advance autonomous planning, code generation, and multi-step workflow execution for enterprise data. You will ship post-training enhancements, design agent–lakehouse integration, and mentor other researchers while collaborating with product and engineering to push Genie’s agent experiences.

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Databricks
Databricks
2 months ago

Staff Research Engineer, Data Agents

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Job Summary

Join the Databricks AI Research Data Agents team to advance autonomous planning, code generation, and multi-step workflow execution for enterprise data. You will ship post-training enhancements, design agent–lakehouse integration, and mentor other researchers while collaborating with product and engineering to push Genie’s agent experiences.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and optimize post-training recipes to train enterprise Data agents capable of autonomous planning, code generation, and multi-step workflow execution
  • •Collaborate with product teams to turn prototypes into product-grade agent experiences for Databricks users
  • •Build systems to help agents discover and leverage lakehouse context (tables, notebooks, code, outputs) for more accurate results
  • •Provide design, debugging, and mentorship to raise the technical bar and shape long-term agentic experiences at Databricks
  • •Contribute to cross-functional efforts with researchers, engineers, and product stakeholders to align research with product needs

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 270,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field
  • •2+ years of experience in an applied research environment, with a track record of shipping research prototypes to production
  • •Experience in LLMs, agents, reinforcement learning, post-training workflows
  • •Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving environment that blends research exploration with product and engineering rigor
  • •Clear communication and strong cross-functional collaboration with researchers, engineers, and product stakeholders
Experience:2+ yearsAI researchEnterprise AIData
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LLMsReinforcement learningAgentsPost-training workflows

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
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