Find Your Next Senior IT Role as an AI Engineer - FDE in the UK
Databricks is seeking a senior-level AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) for a remote IT position based in the United Kingdom, with preferred locations near London. In this customer-facing role, you will join a specialized team delivering professional services to help organizations build and productionize advanced AI applications. You will work cross-functional alongside engineering, product, and developer relations teams while staying at the forefront of GenAI, LLMOps, and machine learning trends.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions using techniques from Databricks AI research.
- Own production rollouts for both consumer and internal GenAI applications.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor across various domains and represent the company at events like the Data + AI Summit.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to help shape the product roadmap.
Requirements
- 5+ years of extensive, hands-on industry data science experience using tools like PyTorch, pandas, and scikit-learn.
- Demonstrated experience building and deploying production-grade GenAI applications—including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, and fine-tuning—using frameworks such as LangChain, HuggingFace, and DSPy.
- Background in building production machine learning deployments on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- A Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or Operations Research) or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences, plus a willingness to travel once every 4 to 8 weeks to meet with customers as needed.
The salary for this position is market competitive, and regional benefits details are available through the organization. Applicants must be based in the UK for this remote opportunity.