Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector
Databricks2 days ago
Base Salary
$153k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead customer technical projects by designing and delivering production-grade systems, reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI model integrations.
- Guide end-to-end design, build, deployment, evaluation, and adoption of data and AI applications for federal government customers.
- Own architecture and design decisions to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer requirements and Databricks best practices.
- Implement and deploy performant data architectures and applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Embed with customer teams, understand technical and business challenges, train stakeholders, and support successful platform adoption.
- Collaborate with Databricks engineers, project managers, architects, customer teams, and customer support to deliver technical components and resolve issues.
- Scope technical delivery work with engagement managers and contribute reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that influence the product roadmap.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Fluency writing code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems among AWS, Azure, and GCP, with expertise in at least one.
- Deep distributed-computing experience with Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD, MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs for production deployments.
- Experience designing and deploying performant end-to-end data architectures and applications.
- Experience with technical project delivery, documentation, whiteboarding, enterprise clients, and managing conflicts across broad stakeholder groups.
- Preferred: expertise in MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs.
- Preferred: Databricks Certification.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government Secret clearance are required; active Secret or higher clearance is strongly encouraged.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with travel to customer locations 20–25% of the time.
- Comprehensive benefits and perks, with region-specific details available from Databricks.
- Potential eligibility for an annual performance bonus and equity in addition to base compensation.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).