Databricks
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, CustomerLake (ML/LLM)
$190K–$253K
New York City, New York +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- New York City, New York
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 10+ years of engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- If duties require access to export-controlled technology or source code, the employer may decide whether to apply for a U.S. government license and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis.
About the job
Build CustomerLake’s ML/AI personalization capabilities, including models, production evaluation, and a platform that helps customers optimize for business outcomes.
What you'll do
- Evaluate and improve ML and LLM approaches for personalization, using production traces to diagnose and improve model behavior.
- Build the platform and evaluation framework to optimize for outcomes such as purchases, retention, and product usage.
- Establish ML/AI personalization practices and collaborate across product, engineering, and design to deliver scalable solutions.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering experience, with a strong foundation in shipping and improving ML/AI products.
- Hands-on experience building and evaluating ML models and/or LLM systems for real product or business use cases.
- Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), with experience evaluating models and monitoring AI quality in production.
- Familiarity with LLMs and generative AI, including RAG, prompt design, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
Nice to have
- Personalization experience based on customer behavior (ideal) or transactions (acceptable), such as recommendations, targeting, churn, or lifetime-value modeling.
- Experience in martech or an academic/research background.
Pay
$190,000 — $253,400 USD (salary range)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, LLMs, RAG
AI focus
Develop and evaluate ML and LLM systems for personalization, improve production model quality, and build evaluation methods focused on business outcomes.
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