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Posted May 23, 2026

AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U.S. Federal Sector

Description: • Develop GenAI solutions for customer problems using the latest techniques from Mosaic AI Research. • Own production rollouts of consumer-facing and internally facing GenAI applications. • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across multiple domains. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap. • Present at conferences and represent the team as a thought leader internally and externally. • Support internal subject matter expert teams on customer engagements and technical initiatives. Requirements: • U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government Secret clearance are required; active Secret or higher clearance is strongly preferred. • Experience working with U.S. federal civilian, state, or local agencies. • Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, and fine-tuning, with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy. • Experience deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimization. • Extensive hands-on industry data science experience with tools such as pandas, scikit-learn, and PyTorch. • Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP. • Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or Operations Research, or equivalent practical experience. • Experience communicating and teaching technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Passion for collaboration, lifelong learning, and driving business value through AI. • Preferred: Experience using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark to process large-scale distributed datasets. Benefits: • Base salary range of $180,656 to $248,360 USD. • Eligibility for an annual performance bonus. • Equity as part of the total compensation package. • Comprehensive benefits and perks provided by Databricks. • Remote work option for this role.