Specialist Solutions Architect
Join Databricks as a Specialist Solutions Architect to lead ML & AI projects and mentor teams in a hybrid role based in Paris.
AI in the day-to-day
You will work with cutting edge technologies in GenAI, MLOps, and ML, applying best practices to productionize AI workloads.
Requirements
- Experience
- 7+ years
Joblaze summary
In the role of Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks, the individual will focus on architecting and optimizing production-grade machine learning and AI applications for enterprise clients. Key skills include extensive experience in ML engineering, familiarity with cloud platforms, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a strong background in ML and AI, particularly those with customer-facing experience. The role also emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering teams to enhance Databricks' AI offerings.
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Quick facts
- Is the Specialist Solutions Architect role remote?
- It's hybrid — Databricks expects some on-site time in Paris, France.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Specialist Solutions Architect role.
- Where is the role based?
- Databricks is hiring for this position in Paris, France.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: MLOps, LLMs, AWS, HuggingFace, GCP, OpenAI.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Specialist Solutions Architect role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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This role is based out of Paris and can involve travel up to 30% when needed
Mission
As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - ML & AI Engineer, you will be the trusted technical ML & AI expert to both Databricks customers and the Field Engineering organization. You will work with Solution Architects to guide enterprise and strategic customers in architecting production-grade ML & AI applications on Databricks, while aligning their technical roadmap with the continually evolving Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You will continue to strengthen your technical skills through applying cutting edge technologies in GenAI, MLOps, and ML more broadly, expanding your impact through mentorship, and establishing yourself as an AI thought leader.
The impact you will have:
- Architect production level ML & AI workloads for customers using our unified platform, including agents, end-to-end ML pipelines, training/inference optimization, integration with cloud-native services, MLOps, etc.
- Serve as trusted practitioner for enterprise GenAI solutions, including RAG architectures, agentic systems (tool-calling agents, multi-agent orchestration, guardrails), natural language querying of structured data, AI evaluation and observability, and monitoring systems
- Build, scale, and optimize customer AI workloads and apply best in class MLOps to productionize these workloads across a variety of domains
- Provide advanced technical support to Solution Architects during the technical sale ranging from feature engineering, training, tracking, serving to model monitoring all within a single platform, as well as participating in the larger ML SME community in Databricks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to represent the voice of the customer, define priorities and influence the product roadmap, helping with the adoption of Databricks’ AI offerings
What we look for:
- 7+ years of hands-on industry ML experience in at least one of the following:
- ML Engineer: Build and maintain production-grade cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) infrastructure that supports the deployment of ML applications, including drift monitoring.
- AI Engineer: Experience with the latest techniques in LLMs & agentic systems including vector databases, fine-tuning LLMs, AI guardrail systems, and deploying LLMs with tools such as HuggingFace, Langchain, and OpenAI
- Experience with data engineering, or a good understanding of the concept of data engineering
- Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike
- Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through ML & AI
- [Preferred] 5+ years customer-facing experience in a pre-sales or post-sales role
- Can meet expectations for technical training and role-specific outcomes within 3 months of hire
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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