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AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Location
Singapore
Experience
Senior
Posted
Jul 10, 2026
Apply by
August 9, 2026
Applicants
0
Early applicantEasy applyFull-timeWork from Office
Job Description
FEQ227R195
**Mission**
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. 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.
**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 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
- We require fluency in English and have a preference for candidates who also speak Mandarin
**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](https://twitter.com/databricks), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc).
**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 click [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/154un3e8Xav4BceOSlcYFZRGEuQI54xMxVydRwQn54eQ/edit?usp=sharing).
**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.**
Key Responsibilities
- Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions incorporating Mosaic AI research techniques
- Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across various domains
- Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit to establish thought leadership
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to influence priorities
Requirements
- Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science
- Engineering
- Statistics
- Operations Research
- etc.) or equivalent practical experience
Skills Required
GenAIRAGMulti-agent systemsText2SQLFine-tuningHuggingFaceLangChainDSPyMachine LearningData Sciencepandasscikit-learnPyTorchAWSAzureGCPEnglishCommunicationTeachingCollaborationLife-long learningCuriosityDatabricks Intelligence PlatformApache SparkMandarin fluency
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks
- Diversity and inclusion commitment
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