Staff Software Engineer - GenAI inference is open at Databricks in San Francisco, California. The posting gives a salary of $191K - $233K. Posted on Oct 8, 2025, and still on Databricks’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Own and drive the architecture, design, and implementation of the inference engine, and collaborate on model-serving stack optimized for large-scale LLMs inference Partner closely with researchers to bring new model architectures or features (sparsity, activation compression, mixture-of-experts) into the engine Lead the end-to-end optimization for latency, throughput, memory efficiency, and hardware utilization…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Databricks’s careers page.
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