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Sr. AI Engineer, AI FDE

Databricks

India · Remote · Posted Oct 12, 2026

At a glance

Workplace
Remote
Location
India

About Databricks

  • Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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.

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

  • 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 qualifications

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

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees

Workplace

  • Open to remote locations.
  • Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed)

Skills

  • HuggingFace
  • LangChain
  • DSPy
  • Pandas
  • Scikit-learn
  • PyTorch
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Apache Spark

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