Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect

Menlo Ventures; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect to guide customers in architecting production-grade ML & AI applications on Databricks. You will align technical roadmaps with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and work with Solution Architects to mentor teams.

You will apply cutting-edge GenAI, MLOps, and ML techniques, expanding impact while serving as an AI thought leader and trusted technical advisor to customers and the Field Engineering org.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years hands-on ML experience with production-grade cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Architect production-level ML & AI workloads on Databricks for customers.
• Mentor and collaborate with Solution Architects and cross-functional teams.
• Influence product roadmap and customer adoption of Databricks AI offerings.

Skills

ML/AI system design

Production ML deployment

Pre-sales / technical communication

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Engineering/Statistics

Tools

HuggingFace

LangChain

OpenAI

Vector databases

Job description

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Location: Melbourne or Sydney

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will be the trusted technical ML & AI expert to both Databricks customers and the Field Engineering organization. You will work with Solution Architects to guide customers in architecting production-grade ML & AI applications on Databricks, while aligning their technical roadmap with the continually evolving Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You will continue to strengthen your technical skills through applying cutting-edge technologies in GenAI, MLOps, and ML more broadly, expanding your impact through mentorship, and establishing yourself as an AI thought leader.

The impact you will have:

• Architect production-level ML & AI workloads for customers using our unified platform, including agents, end-to-end ML pipelines, training/inference optimization, integration with cloud-native services, MLOps, etc.
• Serve as a trusted practitioner for enterprise GenAI solutions, including RAG architectures, agentic systems (tool-calling agents, multi-agent orchestration, guardrails), natural language querying of structured data, AI evaluation and observability, and monitoring systems
• Build, scale, and optimize customer AI workloads and apply best-in-class MLOps to productionize these workloads across a variety of domains
• Provide advanced technical support to Solution Architects during the technical sale, ranging from feature engineering, training, tracking, serving, to model monitoring, all within a single platform, as well as participating in the larger ML SME community in Databricks
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to represent the voice of the customer, define priorities, and influence the product roadmap, helping with the adoption of Databricks’ AI offerings

What we look for:

• 5+ years of hands-on industry ML experience in at least one of the following:
  • ML Engineer: Build and maintain production-grade cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) infrastructure that supports the deployment of ML applications, including drift monitoring.
  • AI Engineer: Experience with the latest techniques in LLMs & agentic systems, including vector databases, fine-tuning LLMs, AI guardrail systems, and deploying LLMs with tools such as HuggingFace, Langchain, and OpenAI
• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike
• Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through ML & AI
• [Preferred] 2+ years customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role
• Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 3 months of hire
• Can travel up to 30% when needed

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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