Databricks
Sr. Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning
$149K–$205K
San Francisco, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years combined developer advocacy and hands-on technical experience.
About the job
Represents Databricks in the Bay Area AI community and creates practical content, demos, and reference implementations that help practitioners build, evaluate, govern, and deploy AI and agent systems on the Databricks platform.
What you'll do
- Build community relationships and deliver talks, meetups, panels, and other advocacy activities.
- Create production-ready agent implementations, demos, educational content, and courseware.
- Bring community feedback to product and engineering teams and influence product improvements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of combined experience in developer advocacy and a hands-on technical role.
- Professional experience building and operating AI or ML systems.
- Strong Python skills and knowledge of AI/ML at scale, including agent design, evaluation, and production operations.
- Based in the Bay Area and willing to participate in community events regularly, including evenings.
Nice to have
- Public portfolio of technical work and recognized participation in AI/ML communities.
- Experience nurturing developer communities, organizing user groups, and facilitating meetups.
Pay
$149,200 — $205,150 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Genie Agents, Genie, MLflow, Databricks Unity AI Gateway
AI focus
Advocacy focused on building, evaluating, governing, and operating AI and agent systems on Databricks, including creating production-ready implementations, demos, and educational materials.
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