AI Engineer - Fde (forward Deployed Engineer)

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · CA · Remote · Professional Services Operations

AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role focused on delivering professional services to help customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. This involves developing GenAI solutions, owning production rollouts, serving as a technical advisor, and collaborating with product/engineering teams. Requires experience building and deploying GenAI applications (RAG, multi-agent, fine-tuning) and production ML deployments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our [Mosaic AI Research](https://www.databricks.com/research/mosaic) 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](https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit), 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.

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • customer-facing AI team
  • build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications
  • latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly
  • cutting-edge GenAI solutions
  • production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
  • trusted technical advisor to customers
  • Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc.
  • deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations.
  • building production-grade machine learning deployments

Other signals

  • customer-facing AI solutions
  • production rollouts of GenAI applications
  • trusted technical advisor to customers
  • building GenAI applications (RAG, multi-agent, Text2SQL, fine-tuning)
  • deploying production-grade GenAI applications
  • evaluation and optimizations
  • building production-grade ML deployments