AI platform engineer at Starburst (India): building the agent development layer - SDK, language bridge and tooling - behind AIDA, its natural-language data assistant.

This India role was posted on 17 September 2026. The team builds the AI layer for Starburst's products: agents that let users ask questions in natural language and get grounded answers from their actual data. The work is unusually infrastructural for an AI role: an agent SDK, a Python-to-JVM language bridge with type safety, developer tooling and a model gateway.

About Starburst

Starburst is the company behind Starburst Enterprise Platform and Galaxy, built on the open-source Trino SQL query engine: it lets enterprises query data wherever it lives without moving it. The company describes its engineering culture as startup-speed inside an enterprise company, and its India roles are listed as remote within India. Learn more on Starburst's website.

The role in plain terms

You design and build an agent development SDK (tool registration, context management, evaluation), build the bridge between the Python AI ecosystem and Starburst's JVM platform, create developer tooling from local environments to CI integration, and own shared infrastructure like the model gateway, observability pipeline and experiment framework. The listing names LLM integration patterns - model APIs, token management, streaming, tool use - and LangChain4j as core.

What you will do

Per the employer's listing, you will:

Design and build an agent development SDK that abstracts common patterns (tool registration, context management, evaluation hooks, prompt management)
Build the language bridge between Python (AI ecosystem) and JVM (Starburst platform) with type safety, error propagation, and observability across the boundary
Create developer tooling: local development environments, debugging tools, test harnesses, CI integration
Define and maintain API contracts between the AI layer and the Starburst platform
Build shared infrastructure: model gateway, observability pipeline, experiment framework

What the employer asks for

These requirements are quoted from the employer's listing, kept in their exact words so eligibility details are not distorted:

Experience with LLM integration patterns: model APIs, token management, streaming, tool use.
Experience with cross-language interop (gRPC, FFI, language bridges).
Java agent framework experience (LangChain4j).
Experience supporting both research and production workloads on the same platform.
Open-source contributions to developer tooling or infrastructure projects are valued.

Who this role suits

Platform-minded engineers who want to build AI infrastructure rather than just consume it: the Python-JVM bridge work is a rare, meaty systems problem. Strong fit for people with SDK or developer-tooling backgrounds moving into applied LLMs. Not for pure prompt engineers or ML researchers.

Practical notes

Show a tool or SDK you built for other developers - adoption inside your team counts. The listing mentions open-source contributions explicitly, so link yours. India-wide location per the listing; Starburst roles are typically remote, but confirm the arrangement on the employer's page.

How to apply

Apply directly on the employer's site: AI Platform Engineer at Starburst. We found this listing on the Greenhouse public job board (job-boards.greenhouse.io), where it was posted on 17 Sep 2026 and was still open when we checked on 31 Oct 2026. Before applying, re-read the employer's own description in full, since eligibility details, deadlines and process steps can change at any time and the employer's page is always the final word. Tailor your resume to the specific requirements above rather than sending a generic one: mirror the skills and tools the listing names where you genuinely have them. A short, specific note on why this team and this problem interest you goes further than a long generic cover letter. Never pay a fee to apply or interview; genuine employers, including this one, do not charge candidates.

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