About the job
About the Team
The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team at Databricks is a distinguished group of software engineers dedicated to collaborating closely with our most important clients. Our mission is to design, create, and implement innovative data and AI solutions that redefine industry standards. If you are passionate about working directly with customers, engaging with your colleagues, and exploring the forefront of data and AI trends, this team is your ideal environment.
Role Description
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will be integrated with our key customers, tasked with designing and delivering bespoke full-stack applications and solutions utilizing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform alongside other established software stacks. You will take charge of architecture, guide design decisions, and implement comprehensive systems that encompass data engineering, AI, and application development.
This role is both hands-on and customer-facing, ideal for software engineers, developers, and creators who excel at the intersection of technology and business impact. The perfect candidate will merge technical expertise with adaptability, curiosity, and a fervor for addressing complex challenges that yield measurable results.
Your Impact:
- Architecture Leadership: Direct the architecture and design processes, ensuring that our solutions are secure, scalable, and meet the specific requirements of our customers while adhering to Databricks best practices.
- Application Development: Create and enhance applications across backend, frontend, and integration layers, transforming data and AI into actionable insights for enterprise users leveraging the Databricks platform.
- Solution Implementation: Deliver production-ready systems from data ingestion and transformation through to ML/AI model integration and user-facing applications.
- Customer Engagement: Work closely with customer teams, interacting with stakeholders from technical staff to executive leadership to gain insights into challenges and generate impactful solutions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Field Engineering to ensure a smooth customer experience throughout the entire journey, from pre-sales to post-deployment.
- Asset Development: Contribute to the development of accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that amplify our impact across various accounts and help shape the Databricks product roadmap.

