Sr. AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U.S. Federal Sector
Databricks3 months ago
Base Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop GenAI solutions using current techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems.
- Own production rollouts of consumer-facing and internally facing GenAI applications.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across varied domains.
- Present at conferences and act as an internal and external technical thought leader.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap.
Requirements
- Experience building GenAI applications involving RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, and fine-tuning, using tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy.
- Expertise deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimization.
- Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with tools such as pandas, scikit-learn, and PyTorch.
- Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or Operations Research, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to communicate or teach technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government Secret clearance are required; active Secret or higher clearance is strongly preferred.
- Willingness to travel to customers once every 4–8 weeks as needed.
- Experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote work is available, with periodic on-site work and client collaboration in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia metropolitan area.
- Travel to customer sites is expected approximately once every 4–8 weeks as needed.
- The position includes comprehensive benefits and perks, with details varying by region.
- Potential eligibility for annual performance bonus and equity is noted in addition to benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Databricks
Databricks builds a cloud-based data and AI platform centered on the lakehouse architecture, combining data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. It sells subscriptions and cloud services to enterprises that need to unify data pipelines and develop large-scale AI and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves organizations across many industries.