Staff Partner Engineer, AI Partnerships

• 10+ years in field engineering, consulting, platform architecture, or AI systems development, with the ability to master new technologies quickly while managing multiple partners.
• Depth in how AI systems are built and run in production, across model serving, inference, retrieval, and agent frameworks, and an understanding of how AI products are developed, delivered, and adopted.
• Hands-on engineering skills, with the ability to develop POCs, build demos, and debug integrations that hold up in front of partner engineering teams and customers. Experience with Python and REST APIs and SDKs.
• Established existing relationships within the product and engineering functions of major AI labs and cloud providers.
• Experience in strategic technical partnerships, navigating multi-company engineering initiatives, building consensus across organizations, and leading architectural discussions with clarity.
• Deep knowledge of the Databricks platform and the ability to design AI architectures that span it and a partner's products.
• Communication and influence skills, with the ability to present to engineering teams and executives, and to translate between Product, Engineering, and partner teams.
• Availability to travel globally to partner sites, conferences, and events as required.
• Prior experience in Partner Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineering, or Alliance Engineering roles at AI companies, cloud providers, global system integrators, or major enterprise software companies, with a track record of driving product-to-product integrations.
• Experience taking AI systems to production at enterprise scale, including evaluation, cost and performance tuning, and the security and governance requirements that gate deployment.
• Background working at or with a frontier lab or AI-native cloud provider, including an understanding of how they build, ship, and go to market.
• Track record of creating technical content that developers use, including reference architectures, deployment guides, blog posts, and conference presentations.
• Strong familiarity with modern development workflows and AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.

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Zone 1 Pay Range

$150,200—$206,450 USD