AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

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Databricks is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to join its AI FDE team, delivering professional services engagements that help customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind GenAI and LLM applications. The role combines deep hands-on engineering with customer-facing technical advisory work, shaping product priorities alongside engineering and product teams. Open to remote locations, with occasional travel to customer sites.

• Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions using the latest Databricks AI research techniques
• Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across domains
• Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit as a thought leader
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering to shape the roadmap

• Experience building GenAI applications including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, and fine-tuning with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy
• Expertise deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimization
• Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, and similar tools
• Experience building production-grade ML deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Willingness to travel once every 4-8 weeks to customer sites

• Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark to process large-scale distributed datasets