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While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged to apply for this role, exceptionally well-qualified candidates in other Central/Midwest locations will also be considered.

Mission

Solutions Architects at Databricks lead the growth of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a team, we have expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, data analytics, and data science, machine learning, and AI. As a member of our team, you will exercise and grow your expertise in those areas, using open source projects such as Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, and MLflow. This is a customer-facing role, where you will work with customers, your teammates, the product team, our post-sales team,s and partners, to identify use cases for Databricks, develop architectures and solutions using our platform, and guide customers through the implementation, to accomplish meaningful outcomes for their businesses. In this process, you will build relationships with our customers, identify and cultivate champions, and establish yourself as a trusted advisor. You will report to a Field Engineering Manager within the Manufacturing team at Databricks.

The impact you will have:

• Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
• Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
• Consult on big data architecture, execute proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
• Build and present reference architectures, how-tos, and demonstrate applications for customers
• Become an expert in, and promote open source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
• Travel to meet with customers in your territory

What we look for:

• 7+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales role, or consulting role - preferably working with big-data technologies to solve data engineering and big-data analytical challenges
• Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
• Comfortable programming in, and debugging, at least one of: Python, SQL, Scala, Java, or R
• Experience working with global system integrators, consulting organizations, or financial services technology, or financial services data providers is a positive differentiator 
• Experience building solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Experience with Data Warehousing technologies (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Undergraduate degree or higher in an engineering or mathematics discipline such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, etc.)

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Solutions Engineer

At Databricks, our core values drive everything we do; a culture of proactiveness and a customer-first mindset fuels our mission to create a unified platform that makes data science and analytics accessible to all. This role is part of our programmatic effort to develop promising field engineers—offering a launchpad for the next generation of data leaders. We aim to build leaders who will empower our customers to make informed decisions that propel their businesses forward. With our Data Intelligence Platform, we make it easy to turn insights into action while encouraging creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement. You’ll play a key role in this mission, building upon your emerging technical skills in the area of solutions engineering, learn how to apply them in the Databricks platform and show customers how to tackle real-world data challenges.  Not just telling them what's possible, but building working prototypes and demos that prove it. You’ll join a collaborative, customer-obsessed team that thrives on innovation to help customers reach their goals. Come help us change how the world works with data—and shape your future while you're at it!

This will be an in-office role and candidates must be based in our Chicago, IL office. Relocation assistance will not be provided.

Recent graduate?: We’d love for you to explore our current internship openings on our careers page and submit your application for our roles designed for new college graduates.

The impact you will have:

• Form successful relationships with customers throughout your assigned territory, providing technical and business value to Databricks customers in collaboration with Account Executives.
• Operate as an expert in big data analytics to excite customers about Databricks. You will develop into a ‘champion’ and trusted advisor on multiple areas of architecture, design, and implementation to lead to the successful adoption of the Databricks Lakehouse platform.
• Adopt a builder-first approach: move quickly from customer problem to working prototype by writing code, building demos, and creating reusable assets that accelerate customer outcomes. Use AI tools to increase your productivity and drive innovation.
• Scale best practices in your field and support customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, demo applications, and help build the Databricks community in your region by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
• Grow your knowledge and expertise to the level of a technical and/or industry specialist.

What we look for:

• The ideal candidate has 2+ years of technical experience in a customer-facing solutions engineering role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Demonstrates a builder mindset: preference for hands-on prototyping and learning-by-doing, with comfort using AI-assisted development tools to move faster
• Hands-on experience with Python, Java, or Scala, and proficiency in SQLExperience with Big Data technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and architectures is a plus
• Aptitude to interact with customers confidently and professionally
• Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 6 months of hire

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Senior Data Scientist / P3358

Summary

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Proprietary Models team. In this role, you will play a critical part in developing, evaluating, and democratizing our foundation models portfolio—including embeddings, pre-trained LLMs, and fine-tuned language models. You will build and optimize embedding pipelines, design rigorous evaluation frameworks, drive models from experimentation to production, and guide business stakeholders through the process of integrating these models into their workflows. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in machine learning and AI with strong problem-solving abilities, a commitment to engineering excellence, and a passion for enabling others to leverage AI effectively.

Responsibilities

Your work will cover a lot of ground, from engineering data pipelines to testing novel AI methodologies to guiding business stakeholders. You will be expected to flex between these skill domains as work progresses through its lifecycle, and to collaborate within a team to make it all happen.

• Develop and optimize embedding pipelines for vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and downstream ML applications.
• Conduct rigorous model testing, evaluation, and validation against quality metrics, performance benchmarks, and reliability standards prior to release.
• Design and execute proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility for specific business problems.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks for model performance, data quality, and pipeline integrity.
• Collaborate with MLE/Researchers/Engineers to develop, fine-tune, and deploy foundation models.
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature engineering, and data preprocessing to support model development.
• Develop and maintain Jupyter notebooks, scripts, and workflows for reproducible experimentation and analysis.
• Contribute to building and maintenance of code packages, APIs, hosted applications, and other foundation model delivery mechanisms.
• Troubleshoot integration challenges and provide technical guidance for model integrations.
• Guide business stakeholders, data science and engineering teams through adoption and integration of foundation embedding and generative AI models.
• Create documentation, user guides, and best practices for internal model adoption and usage.
• Serve as a liaison between the Foundation Models team and business stakeholders, gathering feedback to inform the development roadmap.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, ML, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in data science or machine learning roles
• 3+ years’ experience building in Python using big data tools (e.g. Hadoop, Databricks)
• Hands-on experience building processes incorporating LLMs, embeddings, or related model architecture
• Experience applying embeddings within AI projects and machine learning applications
• Track record of shipping, measuring, and maintaining machine learning models in production
• Exceptional communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience in stakeholder management, technical documentation creation, and cross-functional collaboration

Preferred

• Experience building in cloud data platforms (i.e. Azure, GCP)
• Previous developer relations, technical evangelism, or advocacy experience
• Background in NLP, conversational AI, or generative AI applications
• Open-source contributions or thought leadership in AI/ML community

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SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST (P2408)

SUMMARY:

The Core Science team is responsible for some of our most foundational data science products including enterprise-wide segmentations and store measurement tools. As Senior Data Scientist on the Core Science team, you will build and maintain our new Customer Dimensions and Functional Loyalty. Our team plays a crucial role in building core segmentations that are used across the business in various functions like customer reporting and targeting.

In this role, you will maintain and enhance existing dimensions, support business use of dimensions, build and monitor data quality dashboards, and develop new customer dimensions to expand our view of customers. This includes responding to time-sensitive requests for deep-dive analyses, managing routine processes, and innovation of new segmentations.

You will leverage a diverse technical toolkit including Power BI for dashboard development, GitHub for code management and version control, and PySpark for programming. Additionally, you'll have opportunities to explore the use of embeddings and incorporate AI technologies to enhance our analytical capabilities and create more efficient solutions.

Success in this role requires strong analytical skills and business insights combined with intellectual curiosity and adaptability. We're looking for someone who embraces change, demonstrates enthusiasm for learning new methodologies, and can balance maintaining existing systems while innovating for the future.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Effectively managing projects, tasks and stakeholders to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget and to brief specification while ensuring minimal downtime and maximum utilization.
• Interpreting results and developing actionable recommendations from the data analysis to build relevant customer stories for clients.
• Identifying and implementing artificial intelligence solutions to enhance business processes, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver increased value to stakeholders.
• Quality Assurance of own code and that of team members to ensure the highest quality work is being delivered to our clients.
• Identifying opportunities for standardization & automation of existing solutions and processes to enable 84.51° to realize the maximum potential from our teams.
• Challenging and improving 84.51° analytical capabilities/products.
• Working closely with key internal stakeholders to ensure sound knowledge of client objectives and customer insight, to subsequently design best-in-class solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:

• 2+ years of experience in consulting or professional services
• 2+ years of experience in extracting insights from large databases, translating market research into actionable solutions and presenting findings and recommendations to clients
• 2+ years of experience using advanced algorithms, programming languages, or technologies in the development of technical analytics solutions or capabilities.
• Experience querying data from relational databases using SQL.
• Experience using R, Python, or other similar statistical software to develop analytical solutions.
• Experience with data wrangling, data cleaning and prep, dimensionality reduction.
• Experience with Big Data concepts, tools, and architecture (e.g. Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Spark, Sparkling Water).
• Ability to create computationally efficient solutions.
• Strong academic background in mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, or similar discipline.
• Data visualization skills and ability to present technical solutions to non-technical audience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical, creative problem-solving and decision making skills
• Strong business acumen; grocery and/or retail experience is a plus.
• Passionate about data, analysis and insights.
• Natural curiosity that welcomes and embraces change and willingness to try new things and to fail, particularly in exploring emerging technologies and AI applications.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.

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