Staff Partner Engineer, AI Partnerships

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Partner Engineer to lead the technical relationship between Databricks and our strategic AI partnerships - including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini. You'll own the joint roadmap with their product teams, drive the development of integrations that connect and extend both…

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact across the AI labs, building relationships with senior product and engineering stakeholders to drive joint innovation.
• Work alongside our technical executives to shape the joint product roadmap by translating partner capabilities and integration needs into Databricks platform requirements
• Navigate complex relationships in order to align on joint product offerings that address the needs of Databricks, our partner organizations, and our customers.
• Design and build the integrations that connect and extend both platforms, serving as the hands-on technical expert and early validator of new capabilities.
• Build POCs and reference architectures that hand off cleanly to engineering teams to productize, or to customers to deploy.

What they're looking for

• 10+ years in field engineering, consulting, platform architecture, or AI systems development, with the ability to master new technologies quickly while managing multiple partners.
• Depth in how AI systems are built and run in production, across model serving, inference, retrieval, and agent frameworks, and an understanding of how AI products are developed…
• Hands-on engineering skills, with the ability to develop POCs, build demos, and debug integrations that hold up in front of partner engineering teams and customers.
• Established existing relationships within the product and engineering functions of major AI labs and cloud providers.
• Experience in strategic technical partnerships, navigating multi-company engineering initiatives, building consensus across organizations, and leading architectural discussions…

Tech stack

• Python