AI ML DevRel Lead - Bay Area Community Builder

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

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning to amplify our voice in the Bay Area AI community. You’ll translate practitioner learnings into reference implementations, demos, and content that are production-ready.

You’ll build relationships with AI engineers and data scientists, own advocacy projects end-to-end, and help shape the product roadmap by feeding back community insights. This role requires frequent community presence in SF and beyond.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of combined experience as a developer advocate and in hands-on technical roles.
• Professional experience building and operating AI/ML systems.
• Expertise in agent design, evaluation, production operations.
• Knowledge of Genie Agents, Genie, MLflow, Unity AI Gateway.
• Strong Python skills and fluency with AI tooling.
• Based in the Bay Area and available for evening events.
• Public portfolio of technical work.
• Proven track record nurturing developer communities.
• Exceptional communication across writing, teaching, video, public speaking.

Responsibilities

• Be a consistent, recognized presence in the Bay Area AI community by speaking at local user groups and meetups.
• Own medium-to-large advocacy projects end-to-end, 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

AI

Machine Learning

Community building

Tools

Genie Agents

Genie

MLflow

Databricks Unity AI Gateway

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning to amplify our voice in the Bay Area AI community. You’ll translate practitioner learnings into reference implementations, demos, and content that are production-ready.

You’ll build relationships with AI engineers and data scientists, own advocacy projects end-to-end, and help shape the product roadmap by feeding back community insights. This role requires frequent community presence in SF and beyond.