Databricks plans to increase its Singapore headcount by up to 50% over the next year to support the rollout of new enterprise AI products, according to a report by The Business Times.
The company currently employs over 250 people in Singapore, which serves as its headquarters for the Asia Pacific and Japan region.
Out of a regional workforce of more than 1,500 employees, Databricks is actively hiring for more than 50 new roles locally across sales, engineering, and marketing.
To accommodate this growth, the privately held startup will move into a 32,000 square foot office at IOI Central Boulevard Towers later this year. This physical expansion will quadruple its existing workspace in the Republic.
Targeting hybrid engineering roles
A major focus for the recruitment drive is hiring forward deployed engineers. These hybrid roles combine technical expertise with customer facing responsibilities to help clients customise systems for specific business problems.
Earlier this year, the company partnered with the Infocomm Media Development Authority to upskill more than 10,000 people over three years through data and artificial intelligence courses.
New tools for enterprise governance
The expansion follows the company’s recent Data and AI Summit in San Francisco, where it introduced new products to help enterprises deploy and govern systems more efficiently.
Databricks announced Omnigent, an open source interface for managing different agents, alongside Unity AI Gateway.
The gateway serves as a control layer that lets companies manage how models are accessed, monitored, and paid for.
These launches address growing enterprise concerns over the rising costs of advanced models, which typically charge based on the volume of text tokens processed.
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Senior Vice President of Field Engineering and co-founder, told Business Times that the new products help users route queries to the right model based on task complexity.
He noted that simple tasks such as drafting emails do not always require the most expensive models.
The tools also support a shift towards model agnostic systems to reduce reliance on any single provider.
This flexibility helps insulate companies from sudden platform changes, such as Anthropic recently suspending access to certain advanced models for foreign nationals due to US government orders.
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