AI Engineer - Fde (forward Deployed Engineer)

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Singapore · Field Engineering - Indirect

AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Databricks, focused on building and productionizing GenAI applications for customers, including RAG, multi-agent systems, and fine-tuning. The role involves serving as a technical advisor, collaborating with product/engineering, and owning production rollouts. Requires experience in building and deploying GenAI applications, ML deployments on cloud platforms, and strong communication skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic AI research to solve customer problems
  2. Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
  3. Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains
  4. Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally
  5. Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • Fluency in English

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • building and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications
  • Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions
  • Own production rollouts
  • trusted technical advisor
  • Experience building GenAI applications
  • Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications
  • Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments

Other signals

  • customer-facing AI solutions
  • production rollouts of GenAI applications
  • trusted technical advisor to customers