Databricks · 9 hours ago
GenAI Research Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $190K/yrDatabricks is a leading data and AI company focused on enabling data teams to solve complex problems. As a Research Scientist on the GenAI Team, you will advance deep learning techniques and work collaboratively to enhance model capabilities and reliability, ensuring customer success in training large models.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Keeping up to date with the research literature and thinking beyond the state of the art to address the needs of our users
Developing and implementing methods that extend and improve model capabilities, reliability, and safety
Rigorously evaluating these methods, communicating the results of your findings, and putting those that are useful into production
Qualification
Required
Are comfortable working with large-scale LLMs in the 10s to 100s of billions of parameters
Have solid ML and RL software engineering and scientific research skills
Have produced novel research related to fine-tuning LLMs or improving upon pre-trained LLMs
Have specialized expertise in topics like fine-tuning, RLHF, LLM tool-use, etc
Are passionate about getting your work into the hands of real users and - more broadly - democratizing access to modern AI technology
Are motivated by working on LLM research that - contrary to the general trend in the field - will be disclosed to the public
Have strong communication skills and a desire to work on a small, fast-paced team
Benefits
Eligibility for annual performance bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
Founded in 2013
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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