Engineering Manager, Foundation Model Inference (FMAPI)Active$190K
The opportunity
Engineering Manager, Foundation Model Inference (FMAPI)
What you'll do
Lead and grow a team of talented, product-minded infrastructure Engineers: working on Databricks Foundation Model Inference and Foundation Model API; The teams owns the systems powering large-scale inference workloads for customers through partner models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and self-hosted models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, Llama).
Help shape the roadmap for products spanning real-time inference, provisioned: throughput, and batch inference use cases.
Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to deliver the right: capabilities with strong reliability, quality, and service health.
Build an inclusive, high-performing team that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional engineers.
Maintain a deep understanding of your team’s technical area and uphold a: strong bar for architecture, implementation quality, and operational excellence.
Experience managing and growing high-performing software engineering teams.
What they're looking for
- Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, platform infrastructure,: AI/ML infrastructure, or large-scale backend services, with the ability to maintain quality even in areas you have not worked on personally.
- A track record of delivering complex, multi-quarter engineering initiatives: with high quality and predictable execution.
- Experience partnering effectively with product management and peer: engineering teams to translate customer and business needs into roadmaps and shipped outcomes.
- Operational rigor, including experience with service health, incident: response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
