AI & ML Developer Advocate — Bay Area Community Builder

Databricks Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning to represent us in the Bay Area AI community. You will be the bridge between our engineering teams and data scientists, ML engineers, and AI practitioners, focusing on agentic systems on the Databricks Data + AI Platform.

You will create reference implementations, demos, and education content, share knowledge through talks and blogs, and collaborate with product teams to influence roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of combined experience as a developer advocate and in a hands-on technical role — software engineer, ML engineer, data scientist, or solutions architect.
• Professional experience actually building and operating AI or ML systems, not only presenting about them.
• Subject matter knowledge of solving AI and ML problems at scale, including agent design, evaluation, and production operations.
• Comprehensive understanding of the Databricks AI ecosystem, including Genie Agents, Genie, MLflow, and Databricks Unity AI Gateway.
• Strong Python skills and fluency with the current agent and ML tooling landscape.

Responsibilities

• Be a consistent, recognized presence in the Bay Area AI community — speaking at local user groups and meetups, showing up to the events that matter, and building real relationships with the practitioners and founders shaping the space.
• Own medium-to-large advocacy projects end-to-end, from scoping through delivery, for the AI and agents area.
• Create production-ready reference implementations, starter kits, and demos that show practitioners how to build, evaluate, and govern agents on Databricks — and get them to first value in minutes, not hours.
• Create high-quality educational content — videos, sample notebooks, datasets, tutorials, courseware, and blog posts — and reuse each core asset across formats to reach practitioners wherever they already are.
• Drive awareness and adoption of Databricks AI capabilities through speaking engagements at industry events and conferences.
• Act as a trusted advisor between the AI community and our product teams, and influence roadmap discussions with what you learn.
• Expand and nurture the Databricks AI and ML community by growing meetups and user groups and supporting practitioners in online communities.
• Gather and analyze community feedback to drive continuous improvement of Databricks products and services.
• Mentor and unblock less-experienced advocates in content, demos, and public speaking.

Skills

Python

Public speaking

Developer advocacy

Community building

ML/AI systems

Bay Area presence

Portfolio creation

Tools

Genie Agents

Genie

MLflow

Databricks Unity AI Gateway

Lakeflow

Unity Catalog

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning to represent us in the Bay Area AI community. You will be the bridge between our engineering teams and data scientists, ML engineers, and AI practitioners, focusing on agentic systems on the Databricks Data + AI Platform.

You will create reference implementations, demos, and education content, share knowledge through talks and blogs, and collaborate with product teams to influence roadmaps.