Databricks · 11 hours ago
AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U.S. Federal Sector
Washington, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$181K/yr - $248K/yrDatabricks is a leading data and AI company, and they are seeking an AI Engineer for their Forward Deployed Engineering team. This role involves developing GenAI solutions and collaborating with customers and internal teams to shape strategic initiatives.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataInformation TechnologyAnalyticsData IntegrationData ManagementData StorageMachine Learning
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
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
Required
U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government secret clearance are required to access classified information
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
Eligibility for annual performance bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits and perks
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
Founded in 2013
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$29.05BKey Investors
JP MorganFidelity,Insight Partners,J.P. Morgan Asset ManagementAndreessen Horowitz,Insight Partners,MGX,Thrive Capital,WCM Investment Management
2026-02-09Debt Financing· $2B
2026-01-23Debt Financing· $1.8B
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $5B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
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