Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Data & AI, Hybrid

Databricks Inc.; Manchester (NH); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work with federal and state government customers, building and productionizing data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

You will own architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This role is hybrid with travel to customer locations about 20–25% and requires strong collaboration with engineering, product, and customer teams to deliver

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).
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark and Spark 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.
• Experience with technical project delivery, documentation and white-boarding.
• Experience with enterprise clients and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design decisions for production-grade data and AI solutions.
• Own end-to-end delivery from data ingestion to ML/AI model integration.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and customer teams.
• Embed with customer teams and travel to client locations 20–25% of the time.
• Produce reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices for accounts.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

Apache Spark

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

ML/AI

Architect & design

Project delivery

Client engagement

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Databricks Platform

Apache Spark runtime

CI/CD pipelines

Version control

Job description

Databricks Inc. is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to work with federal and state government customers, building and productionizing data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform.

You will own architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This role is hybrid with travel to customer locations about 20–25% and requires strong collaboration with engineering, product, and customer teams to deliver