Sr. AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U.S. Federal Sector
Databricks5 hours ago
Base Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop GenAI solutions using current Databricks AI research techniques to solve customer problems.
- Own production rollouts of consumer-facing and internal GenAI applications.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across multiple domains.
- Present at conferences and establish thought leadership internally and externally.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap.
- Communicate and teach technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Experience building GenAI applications involving RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, and related techniques.
- Expertise deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimization.
- Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with common machine learning and data science tools.
- 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.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government Secret clearance.
- Preferred experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark for large-scale distributed datasets.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites once every 4–8 weeks as needed.
Benefits
- The role can be remote but is based in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia metropolitan area and includes periodic on-site work and client collaboration.
- Travel to customers is expected approximately once every 4–8 weeks as needed.
- The compensation package may include an annual performance bonus, equity, and regional employee benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Databricks
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