Senior FDE - Data, AI & Customer Impact

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 250,208; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, architect and deliver end-to-end data, AI, and application solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own design decisions, deploy production systems, and train customer teams for sustainable impact.

Join a hands-on, customer-facing role that blends engineering excellence with business outcomes. Travel to client sites up to 20% and collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-success teams at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Comfortable writing code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of two or more Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
• Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• Design and deployment of performant production end-to-end data architectures and applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines and measurable outcomes, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
• Documentation and white‑boarding skills.
• Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range.
• Build skills in technical areas, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
• Travel to customers 20% of the time.
• Databricks Certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade solutions delivery including reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
• Guide transformational big data projects from end-to-end design to deployment in collaboration with engagement managers.
• Boot or implement customer projects to ensure successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
• Own architecture decisions to ensure secure, scalable solutions aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
• Collaborate with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure engagements meet customer requirements.
• Provide product and implementation feedback with engineering and support teams to guide rapid issue resolution.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver measurable impact across stakeholders.
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale across accounts and inform the product roadmap.

Skills

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

Databricks Platform

Apache Spark

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers, architect and deliver end-to-end data, AI, and application solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own design decisions, deploy production systems, and train customer teams for sustainable impact.

Join a hands-on, customer-facing role that blends engineering excellence with business outcomes. Travel to client sites up to 20% and collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-success teams at scale.