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AI Engineer – Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE), U.S. Public Sector (Federal Focus)

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (Washington, D.C. metro area), Remote$182k - $250.2kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team at Databricks delivering customer-facing AI professional services to build and productionize GenAI applications for government clients; role can be remote and requires US citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government secret clearance.

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 ML/data science tools (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch)
  • 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
  • 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)

Skills

Required:GenAI application developmentProduction-grade deploymentML/Data science toolsCloud platformsCommunicationCollaboration & learningTravel willingness
Nice to have:Databricks/NLP stack (preferred)

Benefits

  • Benefits details available via regional link provided in the posting
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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