AI Engineer

About the Role

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. 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. This role can be remote.

Key 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 & Tech Stack

• 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
• 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

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc.) or equivalent practical experience

Additional Notes

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government secret clearance are required due to federal contract requirements and client site access obligations.
• The position is based in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia metropolitan area and includes periodic on-site work and client collaboration.
• Candidates with an active Secret or higher clearance are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark™ to process large-scale distributed datasets.