# Senior AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

Req: FEQ227R196 Location: Tokyo, Japan Mission The AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team is a highly specialized customer-facing AI team at Databricks. We deliver professional services engagements to help our customers build and productionize first-of-its-kind AI applications. We work cross-functionally to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives alongside engineering, product, and developer relations, as well as support internal subject matter expert (SME) teams. We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team. This team is the right fit for you if you love working with customers, teammates, and fueling your curiosity for the latest trends in GenAI, LLMOps, and ML more broadly. The impact you will have: Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally an

- **Id**: 156179
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/databricks-ai-engineer-fde-forward-deployed-engineer-6>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Tokyo, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-03T12:53:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T13:52:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 97
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4202
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Query Engines & Big Data Processing, Data Warehouses & Lakehouses, MLOps

## Company

- **Id**: 15
- **Name**: Databricks
- **Domain**: databricks.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/databricks>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 846
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.254
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 80
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 67000
- **Max usd**: 163000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 9

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **DSPy** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LLMOps** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 96

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: Japanese; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Japan** — Iso: JP; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-03T12:53:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.806
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 96
- **Expected fill days**: 80
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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