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Career profile

Daniel Smilkov

Anthropic. Prev GenAI @ Databricks (acquired). Co-founded Lilac AI, co-created Know Your Data & TensorFlow.js. Ex-PAIR/Google Brain. 🇲🇰🇺🇸 ML & Visualization

Greater Boston

Career path.

  1. Anthropic

    Member of Technical Staff

    Oct 2025 - Present
  2. Databricks

    Staff Software Engineer

    Apr 2024 - Oct 2025
  3. Lilac AI (joined Databricks)

    Co-Founder

    Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
  4. Google

    Staff Software Engineer

    Sep 2014 - Apr 2023
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Graduate Student

    Sep 2012 - Jun 2014
  6. IBM Global Services

    Research Co-op

    Jan 2010 - Sep 2010
  7. Macedonian Academy for Sciences and Arts

    Researcher

    Sep 2009 - Sep 2012
  8. Netcetera - Software matters

    Intern

    Jul 2008 - Sep 2008