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AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

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AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) (ALL LEVELS)Req ID: CSQ127R84MissionThe AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialised customer-facing AI team at Databricks.

We deliver professional services engagements to help our 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 specialisations 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.

We welcome remote applicants located near our offices.

The preferred

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s (in priority order) are London (UK), Munich (Germany), Paris (France), and Amsterdam (NL).

The impact you will have:Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from our Mosaic AI research to solve customer problemsOwn production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applicationsServe as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domainsPresent at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externallyCollaborate 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 DSPyExpertise 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 GCPGraduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research, etc. ) or equivalent practical experienceExperience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences alikePassion 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 datasetsWe require fluency in English and welcome candidates who also speak French or GermanAbout DatabricksDatabricks 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, LinkedInandFacebook.

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