AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Databricks Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking an AI Engineer for the Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team in London. This role focuses on delivering GenAI applications, from design to production rollout, and acting as a trusted technical advisor to customers across multiple domains.

The successful candidate will collaborate with engineering and product teams to shape priorities, present at conferences, and continuously advance GenAI capabilities while traveling to customer sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Min 4 years experience in DS, ML, AI.
• Experience building GenAI applications with RAG, multi-agent, Text2SQL, fine-tuning.
• Expertise deploying GenAI apps to production.
• Experience with pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch.
• Experience deploying ML on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Graduate degree in quantitative field.
• Excellent communication to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willing to travel 4–8 weeks to see customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions using latest Databricks AI research.
• Own production rollouts of GenAI applications.
• Serve as trusted technical advisor to customers across domains.
• Present at conferences and share thought leadership.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to influence roadmap.

Skills

4+ years DS/ML/AI

GenAI app development

Production-grade deployments

Data science tooling (pandas, scikit‑e

Strong communication

Willing to travel

Education

Graduate degree in CS/Engineering/Statistics/OR

Tools

HuggingFace

LangChain

DSPy

AWS/Azure/GCP deployment

Job description

AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - All Levels

Req ID: CSQ427R335

Location: London, United Kingdom

Mission

The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. We work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. This team is the right fit for you if you love working with customers, teammates, and fueling your curiosity for the latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly.

Reporting to: Senior Manager - AI FDE, EMEA

The impact you will have:

• 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

What we look for:

• Min 4 years experience in DS, ML, AI
• 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)

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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