Databricks
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
$182K–$250K
Boston, Massachusetts +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 3, 2026
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts
Remote - California - Experience
- 6+ years in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
About the job
Build and productionize customer-facing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform, owning architecture and technical delivery from design through deployment.
What you'll do
- Lead customer projects delivering production systems, reference architectures, applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI integrations.
- Guide customer architecture, design, adoption, and implementation while coordinating technical delivery across customer and Databricks teams.
- Embed with customer stakeholders, resolve implementation issues, and contribute reusable assets and product feedback.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Ability to code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), with expertise in at least one; deep Apache Spark distributed-computing experience and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Experience with CI/CD, MLOps, ML/AI models and APIs, production data architectures, technical project delivery, and enterprise clients.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certification
Pay
$182,000 — $250,208 USD base salary (Zone 1); $182,000 — $250,208 USD base salary (Zone 2); $182,000 — $250,208 USD base salary (Zone 3); $182,000 — $250,208 USD base salary (Zone 4)
Tools
Databricks, Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Apache Spark
AI focus
Build and productionize customer data and AI solutions, including ML/AI model integration, MLOps, AI APIs, and end-to-end data architectures and applications.
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