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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.
AnthropicMember of Technical Staff
Oct 2025 - Present- Databricks
Staff Software Engineer
Apr 2024 - Oct 2025 - Lilac AI (joined Databricks)
Co-Founder
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 - Google
Staff Software Engineer
Sep 2014 - Apr 2023 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graduate Student
Sep 2012 - Jun 2014 - IBM Global Services
Research Co-op
Jan 2010 - Sep 2010 - Macedonian Academy for Sciences and Arts
Researcher
Sep 2009 - Sep 2012 - Netcetera - Software matters
Intern
Jul 2008 - Sep 2008