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AI Forward Deployed Engineer - London

Databricks· Engineering
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Londonfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) in London, UK. Customer-facing AI team delivering professional services to build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams and evangelizing GenAI and ML trends.

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

  • 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 (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, lifelong 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)

Skills

Required:GenAIRAGMulti-agent systemsText2SQLFine-tuningHuggingFaceLangChainDSPyAWS/Azure/GCP
Nice to have:Distributed data processing

Benefits

  • Benefits details available via regional link in job description
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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