Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail

fde; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for the Retail team to design and productionize GenAI solutions on the Databricks platform, including RAG over lakehouse data and MLflow evals.

The role is customer-facing, focusing on demand forecasting and personalization workloads, with a posted compensation band of $182K–$250K per year.

Qualifications

• Senior FDE with customer-facing experience in deploying GenAI
• Experience building production-grade GenAI solutions on Databricks platform
• Familiarity with demand-forecasting or personalization workloads is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build and productionize GenAI on the Databricks platform for retail customers.
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to deliver GenAI-powered solutions.

Skills

GenAI

Retail deployment

Customer-facing

Tools

MLflow

Job description

$182K–$250K Databricks data platform GenAI retail

Austin, Texas · Posted July 23, 2026

Why it's interesting

Senior FDE on Databricks' retail deployment team in Austin, Texas at a transparent $182K–$250K. Retail FDE seats target demand-forecasting and personalization workloads — Databricks is building a named retail deployment bench.

The role

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail on Databricks' AI Forward Deployed Engineering team — a customer-facing group that builds and productionizes GenAI on the Databricks platform (RAG over lakehouse data, agent frameworks, MLflow evals) for retail customers. Based in Austin, Texas; posted band $182K–$250K. Verified live on Databricks' Greenhouse board.