AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

We are seeking an AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) to join our team. As a member of our highly specialized customer-facing AI team, you will deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. You will 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.

The impact you will have:

• Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic 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.