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AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

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remote senior full-time Paris, France

First indexed 22 May 2026

Description

Job Title: AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join our highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. As an AI Engineer, you will develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporate the latest techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems, and own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications.

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

Requirements:

  • 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:

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide , including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 , rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI.

Benefits:

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.

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