Evergreen - AI Engineer, AI FDE
Databricks · Posted Nov 2
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
The Machine Learning (ML) Practice team is a specialized customer-facing ML team at Databricks that delivers professional services engagements helping customers build, scale, and optimize ML pipelines and put them into production, with growing demand for LLM-based solutions. The team works on generative AI, MLOps, and large-scale data science workloads on the Databricks Data + AI Platform, collaborating with engineering, product, and developer relations. This role develops LLM and RAG solutions on customer data, productionizes data science workloads, advises data teams, and mentors the internal ML SME community.
What you will do
- Develop LLM solutions on customer data such as RAG architectures on enterprise knowledge repos, querying structured data with natural language, and content generation
- Build, scale, and optimize customer data science workloads and apply best in class MLOps to productionize these workloads across a variety of domains
- Advise data teams on various data science such as architecture, tooling, and best practices
- Present at conferences such as Data+AI Summit
- Provide technical mentorship to the larger ML SME community in Databricks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to define priorities and influence the product roadmap
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience building Generative AI applications, including RAG, agents, text2sql, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs, with tools such as HuggingFace, Langchain, and OpenAI
- 5+ years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging typical machine learning and data science tools including pandas, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow/PyTorch
- 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 ML
Preferred qualifications
- [Preferred] Experience working with Databricks & Apache Spark to process large-scale distributed datasets
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Databricks
Databricks is a data and artificial intelligence company that provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform built on a lakehouse architecture. The platform combines data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, and generative AI to help organizations manage and scale their data assets natively across major cloud providers. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks enables thousands of enterprises worldwide to power advanced analytics, business intelligence, and autonomous AI agents.
- Industry
- Data and AI Platform Software
- Company size
- 17300+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $25.2B raised
- 2026-08-13Series L$5.0B
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder and Chief Architect
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