Databricks
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SeniorSoftwareEngineer,AIRuntime
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“Senior Software Engineer, AI Runtime at Databricks. Skills: AI Runtime, Distributed systems, GPU training, ML systems. Drive architecture and evolution of AIR's managed GPU. Deliver scalable, high-throughput, resilient training”
What You'll Achieve.
Make training fast; Make training reliable; Make training effortless; Keep training running for days or weeks; Keep training running across thousands of GPUs; Expand technical impact; Expand business impact
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, Experience in GPU training infrastructure, Experience in high-performance computing, Experience in ML systems, Experience with distributed training frameworks, Experience with parallelism strategies, Understanding of training resilience patterns, Solid grasp of GPU performance fundamentals, Experience building and operating managed, multi-tenant platform products in the cloud, Foundation in algorithms, Foundation in data structures, Foundation in system design, Proven ability to deliver technically complex, high-impact initiatives, BS in Computer Science or related field
Nice to Have
MS or PhD preferred
What You'll Do.
Drive architecture and evolution of AIR's managed GPU
Solve large-scale training problems
Orchestrate multi-node jobs
Implement distributed parallelism strategies
Route GPUs dynamically
Optimize high-throughput data loading
Implement checkpoint and restore
Improve training performance
Raise accelerator utilization
Lower cost per training run
Build resilience foundations
Build observability foundations
Detect hardware failures
Recover from hardware failures
Detect software failures
Recover from software failures
Shape developer experience
Launch production training jobs
Monitor production training jobs
Debug production training jobs
Lead end-to-end engineering efforts
Contribute to core systems
Support latest accelerators
Champion engineering excellence
Mentor other engineers
Contribute to technical direction
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner across product teams; Partner across research teams; Partner across platform teams; Collaborate across teams
Communication Scope
Technical discussions
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
P-1428 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Training and customizing state-of-the-art AI models is one of the most demanding workloads in computing, and it sits at the heart of Databricks' Mosaic AI mission. AI Runtime (AIR) is our managed platform for large-scale GPU training and fine-tuning. It gives customers on-demand access to fleets of the latest accelerators and a serverless experience that hides the complexity of provisioning, scheduling, and orchestrating multi-node jobs, with the resilience to keep training running for days or weeks across thousands of GPUs. AIR powers the full spectrum of custom training, from fine-tuning open models to pre-training frontier-scale foundation models, for some of the most sophisticated AI teams in the world. As a Senior Software Engineer for AI Runtime, you will play a critical role in building and scaling the systems that make large-scale training fast, reliable, and effortless. You will drive the architecture and evolution of the managed GPU training stack, spanning scheduling and capacity, distributed training performance, fault tolerance, and the developer experience of launching and operating jobs at scale. Beyond hands-on contributions to core systems, you will help shape the technical direction for AIR, mentor other engineers, partner across product, research, and platform teams, and contribute to the initiatives that expand the technical and business impact of custom training at Databricks. The impact you will have: Drive the architecture and evolution of AIR's managed GPU training platform, delivering scalable, high-throughput, and resilient training across fleets that span thousands of
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