Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail

fde; Central, Northern (LA, KY); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks in the Central US seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer for its Retail AI deployment. You will own end-to-end delivery of GenAI solutions on the Databricks platform for retail customers, from design to production.

This customer-facing role emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, RAG workflows, and model evaluation, with a posted salary band of $182K–$250K. Join a transparent bench expanding Databricks' retail footprint.

Qualifications

• Senior FDE on Databricks' retail deployment team.
• Experience deploying GenAI on the Databricks platform and handling production workloads.
• Customer-facing engineering experience in AI deployments.

Responsibilities

• Build and productionize GenAI workloads for retail customers.
• Deliver end-to-end GenAI solutions on the Databricks platform.
• Collaborate with customers to ensure successful deployments and adoption.

Skills

Databricks

GenAI

RAG

Customer-facing

Tools

MLflow

RAG

Lakehouse

Job description

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

Central - United States · Posted July 23, 2026

Why it's interesting

Senior FDE on Databricks' retail deployment team in the Central US 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 the Central US; posted band $182K–$250K. Verified live on Databricks' Greenhouse board.