# AI Engineer – Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE), U.S. Public Sector (Federal Focus) at Databricks

- Company: Databricks
- What the company does: Backed by Battery, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.databricks.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Maryland; Virginia; Washington, D.C.
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8760167002&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/databricks-ai-engineer-forward-deployed-engineering-ai-fde-u-s-public-sector-fed/

## 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. 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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
- Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy

Tags: Professional Services Operations

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