Senior Data & AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Databricks; California (MO); On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver production-grade data and AI solutions for customers. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and application development.

The role is client-facing, requires strong engineering expertise, adaptability, and excellent collaboration with engineering, product and customer teams. Travel to customers is expected about 20% of the time.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data engineering, data platforms or software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade solutions and reference architectures for data/AI projects.
• Design, build and deploy end-to-end data/AI pipelines and applications.
• Guide customers on architecture decisions ensuring security and scalability.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed computing (Spark)

Python/Scala/JS

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD

MLOps

End-to-end architecture

Project delivery

Documentation

Databricks Certification

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to deliver production-grade data and AI solutions for customers. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and application development.

The role is client-facing, requires strong engineering expertise, adaptability, and excellent collaboration with engineering, product and customer teams. Travel to customers is expected about 20% of the time.