Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Data & AI

JobCubby; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is hiring a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to work with federal government customers, leading architecture and end-to-end data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

This hybrid, client-facing role requires travel 20-25% to customer sites and emphasizes production-quality delivery and customer empathy. The role blends data engineering, AI, and application development across data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user interfaces, with focus on secure, scalable solutions and hands-on

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Fluency in 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.
• Deep experience with distributed computing with PySpark, Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
• Experience 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, documentation and white-boarding skills; customer engagement with enterprise clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade data and AI projects for federal customers.
• Architect reference architectures and data ingestion, ML/AI model integration and end-to-end systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and drive measurable impact.
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale across accounts.

Skills

Data engineering

Python/Scala/JS

Cloud platforms

PySpark

CI/CD

MLOps

Data architectures

Documentation

Client management

Job description

Databricks is hiring a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to work with federal government customers, leading architecture and end-to-end data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

This hybrid, client-facing role requires travel 20-25% to customer sites and emphasizes production-quality delivery and customer empathy. The role blends data engineering, AI, and application development across data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user interfaces, with focus on secure, scalable solutions and hands-on