AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Seoul, South KoreaFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team at Databricks delivers customer-facing professional services to build and productionize AI applications, collaborating with engineering, product, and SME teams to shape priorities and initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems
- Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains
- Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy
- Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations
- Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging common machine learning and data science tools, i.e. pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.
- Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience
- Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike
- Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through AI
- [Preferred] Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark to process large-scale distributed datasets
- Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed)
- Language Proficiency: Native-level fluency in Korean and professional working proficiency in English (both written and verbal)
Skills
Required:GenAI application developmentProduction deployment of ML/AI systemsCloud platformsData science toolsCommunication/teachingCollaboration & learningTravel willingnessLanguage
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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