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AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 United States Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

₹450,000–₹800,000/mo (₹5,400,000–₹9,600,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks that delivers professional services engagements to help customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. They work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. The team views itself as an ensemble, seeking individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve overall team strength.

Responsibilities

  • Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from Databricks 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

Requirements

  • 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
  • Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed)