Senior Data & AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Cacheflow; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers to build and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks Platform. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing role for builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact, with travel up to 20%.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Comfortable writing code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks.
• Working knowledge of two or more Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.

Responsibilities

• Lead impactful customer technical projects delivering production-grade systems.
• Design and build reference architectures, data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
• Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design, build and deployment of big data and AI applications.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver measurable impact.

Skills

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud platforms

Apache Spark

CI/CD

MLOps

End-to-end data architectures

Client interaction

Tools

Databricks Platform

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers to build and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks Platform. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing role for builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact, with travel up to 20%.