# Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Runtime at Databricks

- Company: Databricks
- What the company does: Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform. Backed by Battery, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.databricks.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8909305002&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/databricks-senior-staff-software-engineer-ai-runtime/

## About the role

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you'll work on the systems behind all of this, solving the hardest technical problems and shaping where AI Runtime goes next. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Drive AI Runtime's architecture and lead Databricks' long-term technical direction in AI training infrastructure
- Define the reliability and observability strategy for a fleet that keeps growing in scale and complexity
- Shape AI Runtime's developer experience for people and agents, so even the largest training jobs feel as simple as a first experiment
- Anticipate industry trends and choose the technical bets that prepare AI Runtime for new GPU generations and workload types
- Take on the hardest multi-node training problems yourself, from orchestration and GPU scheduling to data loading and checkpointing
- Make training faster and cheaper by raising efficiency across model architectures and GPU accelerators

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/databricks-senior-staff-software-engineer-ai-runtime/