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Staff Software Engineer, Agent Quality

Databricks · New York City, New York · On-site

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About Databricks

Backed by Battery, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality, you will be a founding member of a new team focused on evaluating and continuously improving Databricks' AI Agents. You will design and scale the infrastructure, tooling, and developer workflows that let researchers and engineers evaluate agents rigorously — driving a flywheel where evaluation results feed directly back into agent improvement across the full lifecycle, from development and training to production.

What they're looking for

  • Stand up the foundational evaluation infrastructure for Genie Agents, enabling rigorous benchmarking, regression detection, and quality measurement across research and product teams
  • Build the flywheel that connects evaluation results back into agent improvement — closing the loop between production signals, training, and iterative development
  • Shape the long-term technical direction for agent quality infrastructure, with real influence over how Databricks measures and improves its first-party agents and agent development platform
  • Help shape the long-term technical direction for agent quality infrastructure as Databricks expands its first-party agents and agent development platform
  • 6+ years industry experience building software systems
  • Strong Python programming skills, with experience building production or research infrastructure
More about this role

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization is pushing the frontier of next-generation enterprise AI. We believe a company's data is its greatest competitive advantage, and we're building the models and agents that unlock it. Our work spans the full stack, from model training to advanced multi-agent systems.

As a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality, you will be a founding member of a new team focused on evaluating and continuously improving Databricks' AI Agents. You will design and scale the infrastructure, tooling, and developer workflows that let researchers and engineers evaluate agents rigorously — driving a flywheel where evaluation results feed directly back into agent improvement across the full lifecycle, from development and training to production.

  • Stand up the foundational evaluation infrastructure for Genie Agents, enabling rigorous benchmarking,...

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