# Sr. Research Scientist - Agent Flywheel

Sr. Research Scientist - Agent Flywheel P-1213 Company Description At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions. The Databricks AI Research organization is pushing the frontier of next-generation enterprise AI. We believe a company's data is its greatest competitive advantage, and we're building the models and agents that unlock it. Our work spans the full stack, from model training to advanced multi-agent systems. Job Description As a Research Scientist on the Agent Flywheel team, you will build the context layer for recursive self-improvement and autofix loops for agents: turning raw production session traces from Databricks’ data agents into online signals agents can optimize against. You will research how to convert messy, real customer interactions into deterministic metrics, calibrated LLM judges, and failure clusters, and close the loop so those signals drive training and agent improvement. You will j

- **Id**: 4209087
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/databricks-sr-research-scientist-agent-flywheel>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T21:40:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:26:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5538
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Query Engines & Big Data Processing, Data Warehouses & Lakehouses, MLOps

## Company

- **Id**: 15
- **Name**: Databricks
- **Domain**: databricks.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/databricks>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 822
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.264
- **Repost share**: 0.005
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 80
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 164000
- **Max**: 235000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 235000

## Technologies

- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: yes
- **RLHF** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T00:26:43Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 517 · green card filings: 130; Filings 12m: 517

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 80
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T03:29:29Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 235000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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