# Staff Software Engineer, Agent Quality at Databricks

- Company: Databricks
- What the company does: Backed by Battery, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.databricks.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City, New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8842963002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/databricks-staff-software-engineer-agent-quality/

## 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

Tags: Engineering - Pipeline