AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) (GenAI)

Location: United States; open to remote locations. Travel to customers may be required once every 4–8 weeks.

Salary: $152,900–$210,155 USD annually, with potential annual performance bonus, equity, and regional benefits.

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data and AI Platform used by organizations worldwide to build and scale data, AI, analytics, and agent applications.

What you will do

• Develop GenAI solutions using modern AI research techniques to solve customer problems.
• Own production rollouts of consumer-facing and internal GenAI applications.
• Advise customers as a trusted technical expert across different business domains.
• Present technical work at conferences and contribute to internal and external thought leadership.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap.

Requirements

• Experienced engineer with industry experience designing, building, and deploying production GenAI and LLM applications at scale; this role is not intended for interns, new graduates, or entry-level applicants.
• Experience building GenAI applications involving RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, or fine-tuning, using tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy.
• Expertise in production-grade GenAI deployment, evaluation, and optimization.
• Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with tools such as pandas, scikit-learn, and PyTorch.
• Experience deploying production-grade machine learning systems 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.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on lifelong learning and delivering business value through AI.
• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks, varying by region.
• Opportunity to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, developer relations, and subject matter expert teams.
• Potential annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.