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

Remote - Washington D.C.full timeRemote

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H1B: yes

Databricks AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer at Databricks for the U.S. Federal Sector, delivering AI professional services and productionizing AI applications. Requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for secret clearance.

Responsibilities

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, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally
Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap
Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy
Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations

Qualification

Passion for collaboration

Required

Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging common machine learning and data science tools, i.e. pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.
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
Passion for collaboration, life-long learning, and driving business value through AI
[Preferred] Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache SparkTM to process large-scale distributed datasets
Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed)

Benefits

Equity/RSU
Annual Bonus

Company

Databricks

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5001-10000 employees

Data + AI

Founded 2013

Source: greenhouse

Active within the past hour

Remote-friendly

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