Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) (Public Sector)

Location: Hybrid role associated with Virginia and Washington, D.C.; requires travel to customer locations 20–25% of the time.

Salary: $182,000–$250,208 USD annually, with potential annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks builds a unified data and AI platform used by organizations worldwide to develop analytics, data applications, and AI solutions.

What you will do

• Build and productionize data, AI, and application solutions for federal government customers.
• Own architecture and lead design decisions for secure, scalable end-to-end systems.
• Design reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion pipelines, and ML/AI model integrations.
• Guide customers through architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption of Databricks solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, project managers, architects, customer teams, and support to deliver technical components and resolve issues.
• Create reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale across customer accounts.

Requirements

• Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance required.
• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
• Fluency in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
• Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems among AWS, Azure, and GCP, with expertise in one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
• Experience with CI/CD, MLOps, ML/AI models, AI APIs, production data architectures, technical project delivery, documentation, and enterprise stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Expertise in MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs.
• Databricks certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-facing role focused on measurable technical and business outcomes.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, developer relations, and customer support.
• Opportunity to influence product priorities through customer and implementation feedback.
• Benefits package with potential performance bonus and equity eligibility.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity.