Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE (Fullstack) (Data & AI)

Location: Zürich, Switzerland; travel to customers 20% of the time

Company

Databricks is a data and AI company providing a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and AI applications.

What you will do

• Lead customer projects delivering production-grade data, AI, and application solutions on the Databricks platform.
• Own architecture and design decisions for secure, scalable end-to-end systems.
• Build data ingestion pipelines, custom applications, reference architectures, and ML/AI integrations.
• Embed with customer teams, guide architecture adoption, provide training, and engage stakeholders from technical contributors to executives.
• Coordinate with project managers, architects, engineering, support, and customer teams to deliver projects on scope and timelines.
• Develop reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that influence the product roadmap.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
• Ability to code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
• Experience with at least two cloud ecosystems among AWS, Azure, and GCP, with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark, including Spark runtime internals.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, MLOps, ML/AI models, AI APIs, and production end-to-end data architectures.
• Experience delivering technical projects for enterprise clients, managing stakeholders, scope, timelines, and measurable outcomes; Databricks Certification required.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-facing, hands-on work at the intersection of technology and business impact.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, developer relations, customer support, and client teams.
• Opportunities to work on transformational big data and AI projects and contribute to reusable technical assets.
• Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to the employee's region.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.