Head of Engineering, AI Platform

Starburst is hiring a Head of Engineering, AI Platform in India.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience taking an internal platform external, turning something built for your own engineers into a product customers pay for

• Experience with agentic systems, evaluation methodology, or LLM serving at scale

• Comfort across Python and JVM ecosystems

• Experience with data systems, SQL engines, or analytics products

• Experience running multiple models behind one platform (proprietary APIs and open-weight, routing and gateways, per-model quirks), including deployments in regulated environments

• Active presence in the ML/AI community in India (meetups, conferences, open source, writing), which helps us find great engineers and helps them find us

Build your career at Starburst

All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future.

Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.

We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.

Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

About Starburst

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust