Sr. AI Engineer, AI FDE
Join Databricks as a Senior AI Engineer to develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions and serve as a trusted advisor to customers.
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Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions
- Own production rollouts of GenAI applications
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers
- Present at conferences
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams
Must have
- Experience building GenAI applications
- Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications
- Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience
- Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments
- Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline
- Experience communicating technical concepts
Nice to have
- Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform
- Experience with Apache Spark
Practical constraints
- Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers
AI in the day-to-day
We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications.
Requirements
- Education
- Master's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior AI Engineer will focus on developing and deploying innovative GenAI applications while serving as a technical advisor to clients across various sectors. Key skills include expertise in machine learning frameworks and cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on building production-grade solutions. This position is ideal for experienced professionals with a background in data science and a passion for collaboration and continuous learning. The team operates at the intersection of engineering and customer engagement, emphasizing strategic partnerships and thought leadership.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Sr. AI Engineer, AI FDE role remote?
- Yes — Databricks lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Apache Spark, Azure, DSPy, Databricks Intelligence Platform, GCP.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sr. AI Engineer, AI FDE role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Mission
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. Open to remote locations.
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, 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
- [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)
About Databricks
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