Databricks
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Healthcare & Life Sciences
$182K–$250K
Dallas, Texas +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 3, 2026
- Location
- Dallas, Texas
Remote - California - Experience
- 6+ years in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering; travel to customers 20% of the time.
About the job
Build and productionize customer-facing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform, owning architecture and delivery from design through deployment.
What you'll do
- Lead customer projects delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems, including reference architectures, data ingestion, and model integration.
- Guide customers on architecture and design, embed with stakeholder teams, and ensure secure, scalable solutions meet customer needs.
- Coordinate technical delivery with internal teams and customers; provide product feedback and contribute reusable accelerators and best practices.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), with expertise in one; deep Apache Spark distributed computing experience and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Experience with production data architectures and applications, CI/CD, MLOps/ML/AI, technical project delivery, and enterprise clients.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certification
Pay
$182,000 — $250,208 USD base salary (Zones 1–4; Zone 1 also repeated)
Tools
Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Apache Spark, CI/CD
AI focus
Integrate ML/AI models and AI APIs into production data architectures and applications; apply working knowledge of MLOps and guide customer data and AI projects.
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