Senior Forward-Deployed Data & AI Engineer

Fdetimes; California; Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers, architect and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own the end-to-end design, lead technical delivery, and collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

This role is customer-facing, requires hands-on implementation, and includes travel to customer sites. You will build reference architectures, develop data pipelines, ML/AI models, and deliver

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or software engineering.
• Comfortable coding in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript with modern frameworks.
• Experience with distributed computing, Spark runtime, and cloud ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade solution delivery for customer projects.
• Design reference architectures and data ingestion pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams.
• Embed with customer teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

Skills

Data engineering

Spark/Big Data

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

MLOps

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with customers, architect and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own the end-to-end design, lead technical delivery, and collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

This role is customer-facing, requires hands-on implementation, and includes travel to customer sites. You will build reference architectures, develop data pipelines, ML/AI models, and deliver