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

Posted 22 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
2 Locations
181K-248K Annually
Mid level
In-Office or Remote
2 Locations
181K-248K Annually
Mid level
The AI Engineer will develop and deploy cutting-edge GenAI solutions, collaborate with teams, and engage with U.S. federal clients to enhance AI applications and initiatives.
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PLEASE NOTE:
Due to federal contract requirements and client site access obligations, U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government secret clearance are required to access classified information. 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.

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 federal government customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. We 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. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. 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.

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 working with U.S. federal civilian, state, or local agencies. 
  • 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.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.


Zone 1 Pay Range
$180,656$248,360 USD
Zone 2 Pay Range
$180,656$248,360 USD
Zone 3 Pay Range
$180,656$248,360 USD
Zone 4 Pay Range
$180,656$248,360 USD

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. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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 visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks. 

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. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Top Skills

Spark
AWS
Azure
Databricks Intelligence Platform
Dspy
GCP
Genai
Huggingface
Langchain
Pandas
PyTorch
Scikit-Learn

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2001 8th Ave, Suite #600, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98121

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