Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Data & AI (Remote)

Databricks Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 19,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers in building and productionizing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role focuses on delivering production-grade solutions, guiding transformational big data projects, and ensuring secure, scalable architectures while collaborating

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Experience with distributed computing and Spark runtime internals.
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Lead production-grade solution delivery including reference architectures and data/ML model integration.
• Guide strategic customers through end-to-end design and deployment of big data projects.
• Own architecture decisions to ensure secure and scalable solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud technologies

Distributed computing

CI/CD

MLOps

Tools

Apache Spark

Python

CI/CD tools

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to partner with customers in building and productionizing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.

This hands-on, customer-facing role focuses on delivering production-grade solutions, guiding transformational big data projects, and ensuring secure, scalable architectures while collaborating