Senior Data & AI Solutions Engineer (FDE)

Menlo Ventures; United States; On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,208; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to partner with customers on data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform. You will own architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires engineering expertise, adaptability, and strong customer empathy to deliver measurable outcomes. FDEs are billable and deliver projects to specification.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade implementations across data pipelines, ML/AI models, and applications.
• Architect scalable, secure end-to-end solutions with Databricks best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to ensure successful deliveries.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver measurable impact.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platforms

Analytics

Software engineering

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud knowledge

CI/CD

MLOps

Spark

Spark internals

Architecture design

Project delivery

Documentation

Tools

Apache Spark

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to partner with customers on data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform. You will own architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires engineering expertise, adaptability, and strong customer empathy to deliver measurable outcomes. FDEs are billable and deliver projects to specification.