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AIEngineer-FDE(ForwardDeployedEngineer)-U.S.FederalSector
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“AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U. S. Federal Sector at Databricks. Skills: GenAI, LLMOps, ML, Production deployment, Customer engagement. 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”
What You'll Achieve.
Build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications; Solve customer problems; Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications; Drive business value through AI
Industry & Context.
Solve customer problems
U. S. citizenship, Eligibility for a U. S. government secret clearance, Periodic on-site work and client collaboration, Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed)
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
U. S. citizenship and eligibility for a U. S. government secret clearance are required, Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations, 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
Nice to Have
Active Secret or higher clearance, 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)
What You'll Do.
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
Influence priorities and shape the product roadmap
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations; Support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams; Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams
Communication Scope
Communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alike
Full Job Description
PLEASE NOTE: 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. The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. We work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. This team is the right fit for you if you love working with customers, teammates, and fueling your curiosity for the latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly. This role can be remote. The impact you will have: 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 What we look for: 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, includin
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