Sr. AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer Manager· Databricks · Reinvention Centers

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer enterprise-ready AI agents encompassing retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability. • Architect AI-native solutions on Databricks (Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Model Serving, MLflow) with Unity Catalog governance, scaling reusable patterns across customer engagements.
• Establish Lakehouse data foundations (Delta Lake, DLT, Unity Catalog) that power production AI across customer portfolios.
• Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc.) to enable seamless integration.
• Leverage containerization, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures to deliver scalable AI-native systems.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail.
• Conduct design workshops, proofs of concept, and code-with sessions with client stakeholders.
• Define and use metrics to measure agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Process large-scale distributed datasets on the Databricks Intelligence Platform with Apache SparkTM.
• Integrate LLM solutions with APIs, model monitoring, and prompt management.
• Operate MLOps / LLMOps pipelines with CI/CD across the ML and LLM lifecycle.
• This is a hybrid role in Dallas, TX and requires 4 days per week in the office. May consider qualified applicants in Columbus, OH; Tampa, FL; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX.
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 25% to 75% depending on business need and client requirements.
• Here's What You Need:
• Minimum 10 years of experience on Databricks and large-scale big data projects (Delta Lake, DLT, Apache Spark, Unity Catalog). You've also built API layers that expose data and AI/ML capabilities to enterprise systems.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent. Comfortable with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Minimum 10 years of experience deploying and operating production systems with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling. Practical MLOps and LLMOps experience: CI/CD across the ML and LLM lifecycle covering model training, evaluation harnesses, model serving, monitoring, and prompt management.
• Minimum 1 year experience in designing and shipping agentic AI solutions in production.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with agentic orchestration tools (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar). Hands on with Databricks AI tooling: Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Model Serving, MLflow, and Unity Catalog governance. You've built RAG and multi-agent systems on the Databricks Intelligence Platform.
• Minimum 1 year experience working with AI platforms across OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
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• Colorado $94,400 to $253,800
• Connecticut $94,400 to $253,800
• District of Columbia $100,500 to $270,300
• Illinois $87,400 to $253,800
• Maine $80,400 to $216,200
• Maryland $94,400 to $253,800
• Massachusetts $94,400 to $270,300
• Minnesota $94,400 to $253,800
• New York $87,400 to $293,800
• New Jersey $100,500 to $293,800
• Ohio $87,400 to $235,000
• Virginia $87,400 to $270,300
• Washington $100,500 to $270,300
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