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

We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) to join our team in the U.S. Federal Sector. As a member of the AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team at Databricks, you will deliver professional services engagements to help customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications.

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)

Pay Range Transparency: The pay range for this role is $182,000-$250,208 USD.