Senior AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

Location: Tokyo, Japan; travel to customers once every 4–8 weeks as needed.

Company

Databricks is a data and AI company providing a unified platform for building and scaling data, AI, analytics, and agent applications.

What you will do

• Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions using techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems.
• Own production rollouts of consumer-facing and internally facing GenAI applications.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers across multiple domains.
• Present at industry conferences and contribute as an internal and external thought leader.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap.

Requirements

• Experience building GenAI applications involving RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, and fine-tuning with tools such as Hugging Face, LangChain, and DSPy.
• Expertise deploying, evaluating, and optimizing production-grade GenAI applications.
• Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, and related tools.
• Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience, plus the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Native-level Japanese and professional working proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark for processing large-scale distributed datasets.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to regional employee needs.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.
• Opportunities for collaboration, lifelong learning, and driving business value through AI.
• Customer-facing work across varied domains and participation in industry events.