Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences

Databricks is the Data and AI company; more than 20,000 organizations rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Healthcare & Life Sciences, you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform, owning the architecture, leading design decisions, and implementing end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. FDEs are billable and customer-facing, delivering with customer empathy.

• Lead impactful customer technical projects, delivering production-grade systems, reference architectures, custom applications, and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
• Guide strategic customers on transformational big data projects including end-to-end design, build and deployment.
• Own architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
• Embed with customer teams, engaging stakeholders from technical ICs to executives.
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts.

• 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Comfortable writing code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
• Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments; working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• Experience designing and deploying production end-to-end data architectures and applications.
• Experience with technical project delivery and enterprise clients; documentation and white-boarding skills.
• Travel to customers 20% of the time.

Base salary range $182,000—$250,208 USD (all zones). Total compensation may include eligibility for annual performance bonus and equity. Candidates located anywhere within the Central or Eastern Time Zones are also eligible for consideration.