# AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer - U.S. Federal Sector

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia
**Role:** GTM Engineering
**Salary:** $186k – $256k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Generative AI, RAG, Huggingface, LangChain, Dspy, AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks Intelligence Platform, Spark
**Posted:** 2026-06-02

> As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you will develop and deploy cutting-edge GenAI solutions for customers in the U.S. Federal Sector. This role involves significant customer interaction, technical advising, and cross-functional collaboration to influence product roadmaps.

## Job Description

## The impact you will have:

* 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 

## 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
* Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed)

## Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Local Pay Range
$185,920—$255,640 USD

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