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Staff/Principal Software Engineer, Generative AI Agentic Applications (NYC)
Staff/Principal Software Engineer, Generative AI Agentic Applications (NYC)
As a Staff/Principal Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI Agentic Applications, you will be a founding engineer in the NYC office, building new products from the ground up. You will create novel interfaces for GenAI agents, lead full-stack development, and define the strategy for end-to-end AI feature development.
About the role
About the Role
As one of the first engineers in the NYC Engineering office, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a small, nimble team that’s innovating to build new products from the ground up. Our goal is to leverage the power of Databricks in data & AI to deliver vertical AI applications for both technical and business users. This will be a true 0-to-1 environment, combining the excitement of a startup with the resources of a tech leader like Databricks.
The Impact You'll Have
- Create novel, never-seen-before interfaces for GenAI agents that manage complex workflows while keeping the human in the loop through inspectability and transparency
- Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth
- Lead by example with hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences
- Enable mechanisms that can drive product-led growth, through seamless onboarding and sharing capabilities
- Direct the future of intuitive agentic applications at Databricks, in collaboration with cross-functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and designers
- Define and drive the strategy for building end-to-end AI feature development by designing, building, and maintaining systems that are scalable, reliable, and performant.
What We Look For
- 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Demonstrated product mindset with the ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into scrappy MVPs and iterate quickly based on data and user feedback.
- You care that AI features feel intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful, not just bolted on to an existing app
- High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption.
- Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
- 10+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go)
- Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products, ideally with a significant UI/UX component
- Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products
- Deep familiarity with LLMs and generative AI, including hands-on experience with techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt design, evaluation, and monitoring AI quality and safety in production.