Customer-Facing Data & AI Solutions Engineer

databricks; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks in London is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic customers and deliver custom full-stack applications on our Data Intelligence Platform and related stacks. You will own architecture, drive design decisions, and deliver production-grade data/AI solutions, collaborating with customers, sales, product, and field engineers to ensure measurable outcomes and scalable success.

Travel up to 50% to client sites is expected, with a strong emphasis on customer impact and

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background across backend, frontend and systems integration.
• Experience delivering production-grade data and AI applications.
• Ability to work directly with customers to understand and solve business problems.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers to design and deliver full-stack applications.
• Own architecture and key design decisions for secure, scalable solutions.
• Lead end-to-end delivery from data ingestion to user-facing apps and AI models.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product and Field Engineering to ensure smooth customer journeys.
• Develop reusable accelerators and best practices for wider impact.

Skills

Python

SQL

Java/Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Modern frameworks

Tools

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Gemini API

Job description

Databricks in London is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic customers and deliver custom full-stack applications on our Data Intelligence Platform and related stacks. You will own architecture, drive design decisions, and deliver production-grade data/AI solutions, collaborating with customers, sales, product, and field engineers to ensure measurable outcomes and scalable success.

Travel up to 50% to client sites is expected, with a strong emphasis on customer impact and