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Databricks · 1 day ago

Sr. AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$161K/yr - $226K/yr

Databricks is a leading data and AI company that provides solutions to over 10,000 organizations worldwide. The AI Forward Deployed Engineering team is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions and serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, collaborating with cross-functional teams to influence product priorities and shape the roadmap.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
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Responsibilities

Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic AI Research to solve customer problems
Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains
Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally
Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap

Qualification

GenAI applicationsProduction-grade deploymentsData science toolsCloud platformsGraduate degreeDatabricks Intelligence PlatformApache SparkTechnical communicationCollaborationLifelong learning

Required

Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy
Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations
Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging common machine learning and data science tools (i.e., pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.)
Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP
Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience
Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike
Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through AI

Preferred

Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark™ to process large-scale distributed datasets

Benefits

Annual performance bonus
Equity

Company

Databricks

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Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
dateFounded in 2013
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size5001-10000 employees
web-link
https://www.databricks.com

H1B Sponsorship

Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (385)
2024 (319)
2023 (227)
2022 (222)
2021 (166)
2020 (64)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$25.81B
Key Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B

Leadership Team

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Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
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David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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