Databricks Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Senior Databricks Forward Deployed Engineer designing scalable data foundations, implementing Generative AI solutions, and migrating legacy workloads onto the Databricks Lakehouse platform for enterprise clients.
Role type
Senior IC Databricks Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Builds
Production-grade data pipelines, analytics engines, and Generative AI/LLM applications on Databricks
Domain
Data Engineering & Generative AI on Databricks Lakehouse
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Databricks ecosystem (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Spark/PySpark), Generative AI (RAG, LLM fine-tuning, vector databases), Cloud architecture (AWS), Data migration, Solution architecture
Preferred skills
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional, Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional, Fortune 500 client experience
Technologies
Databricks, Spark, Python, PySpark, AWS, MLflow, Mosaic AI, Vector databases
Responsibilities
Design and deploy production-grade data pipelines and GenAI applications; Lead legacy platform migrations to Databricks; Partner with C-level executives to translate business challenges into technical solutions; Mentor junior Solution Engineers and Architects; Identify new technical use cases to drive platform adoption and growth.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
