Sr. AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U.S. Federal Sector

Databricks is the Data and AI company, serving more than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including 70% of the Fortune 500 — with its Data + AI Platform. The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a specialized customer-facing AI team delivering professional services engagements to help customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications.

• 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 and collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap.

• Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, and fine-tuning, with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy.
• Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations.
• Hands-on industry data science experience leveraging common machine learning and data science 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 (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.
• 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.

Due to federal contract requirements and client site access obligations, U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government secret clearance are required to access classified information. The position is based in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia metropolitan area and includes periodic on-site work and client collaboration. Candidates with an active Secret or higher clearance are strongly encouraged to apply.

Local pay range: $182,000—$250,208 USD. The total compensation package may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Apply through the Databricks careers job posting.