CSQ427R342
Associate Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Hub Cities: NYC | Mountain View | up to 20% travel to customer sites + Hybrid office expectation
As an Associate Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Databricks, you'll be in a hands-on, customer-facing role for builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact. You'll work directly with enterprise customers to build and productionize Data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform. This early-career role is ideal for a strong Software Engineer looking to grow into a Forward Deployed Engineer. You will embed with customer teams, ship production-grade systems, and learn the Databricks platform deeply alongside Senior FDEs and our Engineering organization.
The impact you will have
- Production Solution Delivery: Deliver production-grade systems and reference architectures, contributing reusable frameworks, tools, and best practices along the way.
- Transformational Impact: Support strategic customers through transformational data & AI projects, from prototype through production deployment.
- Own the Architecture: Contribute to architecture and design decisions for secure, scalable, full-stack solutions on the Databricks platform.
- Embed with customer teams to understand their technical and business challenges and help deliver measurable impact.
- Collaborate closely with senior FDEs, Databricks engineering, and customer support to unblock customers and feed learnings back into the product.
- Manage technical scope and timelines for your workstreams, growing toward end-to-end delivery ownership.