AI & ML Developer Advocate — Bay Area Leader

Databricks; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and ML to amplify our voice in the Bay Area community and bridge engineering with practitioners worldwide.

You will build reference implementations, host events, and craft tutorials that turn insights into production‑ready solutions. You’ll lead impactful projects, mentor peers, and collaborate with product teams to shape our AI platform roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of combined experience as a developer advocate and in a hands‑on technical role.
• Experience building and operating AI/ML systems.
• Subject matter knowledge of solving AI and ML problems at scale.
• Strong Python skills.
• Based in the Bay Area and willing to be in the community regularly.
• Public portfolio of technical work.
• Proven track record in nurturing developer communities.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Deep empathy for developer needs.
• Adept at collaborating with cross‑functional stakeholders to align community initiatives with product objectives.

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.
• Mentor and unblock less‑experienced advocates in content, demos, and public speaking.

Skills

Python

Public speaking

Developer advocate

AI/ML

Bay Area presence

Tools

Genie Agents

Genie

MLflow

Unity AI Gateway

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and ML to amplify our voice in the Bay Area community and bridge engineering with practitioners worldwide.

You will build reference implementations, host events, and craft tutorials that turn insights into production‑ready solutions. You’ll lead impactful projects, mentor peers, and collaborate with product teams to shape our AI platform roadmap.