AI Engineer – Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE)
Databricks· Engineering
Remote$182k - $250.2kFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
AI Engineer – Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) role focused on designing, building, and deploying production GenAI and LLM applications for customers. Open to remote locations. Not intended for internship or new graduates.
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, 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)
Skills
Required:GenAI application developmentProduction-grade deploymentData science tooling
Benefits
- Benefits are described in regional details linked in the job posting
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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