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AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

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hybrid senior full-time Tokyo, Japan

First indexed 3 Aug 2026

Description

The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team at Databricks is a highly specialised customer-facing AI team that delivers professional services engagements to help customers build and productionise first-of-its-kind AI applications.

You will develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems. You will own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications, serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, and present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit.

Responsibilities include:

  • Developing GenAI solutions using tools like HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy
  • Deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimisation
  • Collaborating cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap
  • Communicating technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences

Requirements:

  • Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc.
  • Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications
  • Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with tools like pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.
  • Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience
  • Native-level fluency in Japanese and professional working proficiency in English

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees
  • Opportunities for growth and development in a diverse and inclusive culture

About Databricks: Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe.

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