AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

Databricks Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI solutions company is looking for an experienced GenAI Engineer to develop innovative AI applications and serve as a technical advisor to clients. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence product priorities, and present as a thought leader at industry events. Ideal candidates have strong experience with GenAI tools and production environments. This role offers remote work options within the US and other preferred locations globally.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Fluency in English is required; additional languages like French and Spanish are welcome.
• Passion for collaboration and business value through AI.
• Ability to teach technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions.
• Own production rollouts of GenAI applications.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers.
• Present at conferences as a thought leader.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams.

Skills

Experience building GenAI applications

Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications

Hands-on industry data science experience

Building production-grade ML deployments on AWS

Communication of technical concepts

Collaboration and life-long learning

Tools

HuggingFace

LangChain

DSPy

pandas

scikit-learn

PyTorch

Databricks Intelligence Platform

Apache Spark

Job description

Recruiter: Dina Hussain

Overview

The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialised 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 specialisations 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.

We welcome remote applicants located near our offices. The preferred locations (in priority order) are London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), and Amsterdam (NL).

Reporting to: Senior Manager - AI FDE, EMEA

Impact

• Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic 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

• 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
• 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
• We require fluency in English and welcome candidates who also speak French, Spanish, Dutch, or German

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter ,LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visithttps://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.