Principal Research Scientist – Scaling

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Principal Research Scientist – Scaling P-1227 About Databricks AI: At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development, by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform. The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and systems using their own data; from pre-training LLMs from scratch to state-of-the-art retrieval-augmented generation by producing novel science and putting it into production. We believe a company’s AI models are a core part of their IP, and that high‑quality AI models should be available to all. About the Scaling Research Team: The Databricks AI Scaling team focuses on pushing the boundaries of large language model (LLM) training and inference efficiency beyond what is required to support existing models. The team explores novel avenues for scaling and efficiency improvements across algorithms, systems, and infrastructure, requiring researchers who can both drive independent research agendas and dive deep into low‑level implementation details with engineering partners. Role Summary: As a Principal Research Scientist – S...