Databricks
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Manufacturing
$182K–$250K
Boston, Massachusetts +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 3, 2026
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts
Remote - Texas - 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 delivery from design through deployment.
What you'll do
- Lead technical projects, designing and implementing production-grade data architectures, applications, ingestion, and ML/AI integrations.
- Advise and guide customers on architecture, implementation, and adoption while coordinating with customer and Databricks teams.
- Contribute reusable accelerators and best practices, and provide product and implementation feedback to Databricks teams.
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 at least one; deep distributed-computing experience with Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Experience delivering technical projects and deploying production end-to-end data architectures and applications; familiarity with CI/CD, MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certification
Pay
$182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary)
Tools
Databricks, Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Apache Spark
AI focus
Integrate ML/AI models and AI APIs into production data architectures and applications; guide customers implementing data and AI solutions.
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