Sr. Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Databricks

CSQ327R142 As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will embed directly with our most strategic customers to design and deliver custom fullstack applications and solutions on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and other common software stacks. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role for software engineers, developers, and builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact. The ideal candidate combines engineering expertise with adaptability, curiosity, and a passion for solving complex problems that drive measurable outcomes. The impact you will have: * Own the Architecture: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices. * Application Engineering: Design and develop applications spanning backend, frontend, and integrations, bringing data and AI to life for enterprise users leveraging the Databricks platform.  * Solution Delivery: Deliver production-grade systems from data ingestion and transformation through ML/AI model integration to user-facing applications and enablement. * Customer Immersion: Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact. * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Product, and Field Engineering to ensure a seamless customer journey from pre-sales through post-deployment. * Reusable Assets & Scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap. What we look for: * Engineering Depth: Strong background in software engineering with experience across backend, frontend, and systems integration. Proficiency in Python, SQL, Java/Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks. * Application Delivery: Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deploy production applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces. * AI/ML Experience: Familiarity working with AI APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini into applications, and leveraging AI code generation tools to accelerate productivity.  * Customer Impact: Proven track record of delivering technical solutions in enterprise environments that drive measurable outcomes. * Collaboration & Communication: Ability to engage across a broad stakeholder range, from engineers to C-level executives, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions. * Learning Mindset: Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies, domains, and customer challenges. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Databricks

CSQ327R54 At Databricks we work on some of the most complex distributed processing and machine learning problems in the world and our customers challenge us with interesting new big data and AI use cases. You will shape the future of big data and the machine learning landscape for leading Fortune 500 organizations. Professional Services Delivery Partner Manager supports the mission of the Professional Services team, which is to accelerate and de-risk our customers' business outcomes through effective enablement and delivery of Databricks platform technology. This is an individual contributor role that will oversee the Databricks Delivery Partner Program which looks to use close partnerships with key system integrators to effectively co-deliver Databricks services engagements.  The impact you will have: * You will work with the Professional Services team in order to use Databricks delivery partners to accelerate our customer project outcomes. * Build and develop Professional Services relationships with Global System Integrators (GSIs), Regional System Integrators (RSIs), regional Partner team to support bi-directional pipeline review and bi-directional engagements (subcontracting, and advisory) for company priorities.  * Build a RFP process to support Partner Selection for large complex multi year, multi phase migration deals. Create templates, scorecards to supplement partner selection with a data driven approach.  * Spearhead and lead efforts to incubate and ramp new partners with Gen AI capabilities. * Drive MBRs and QBRs with priority partners, and develop long term roadmaps for PS Partner delivery priorities. Develop scorecards and feedback loops to segment partners by focus areas, regions and company priorities.  * Drive delivery governance to ensure partner quality and delivery on Services led and partner supported implementations. Support global programs to measure partner quality such as CSAT, Partner Survey and program governance. * Lead programs that align with our PS & Partner strategy for Assurance and advisory services. Work with our cross-functional channel teams to enable GSIs, RSIs, SIs on Assurance services, and support bi-weekly reviews and deal governance * Support Partner IP efforts such as the creation of service delivery kits to better scale our ecosystem.   * Liaison with Delivery Partner organizations to ensure personnel have the required level of training and certification in order to achieve Databricks projects following best practices. Champion and provide thought leadership for specialization programs. You will implement and lead programs for achieving requirements and exceeding delivery quality. * Build and maintain an effective onboarding process for partner resources ensuring effective utilization and quality of services across Databricks customer deliveries. * Work with the Databricks resource management team to oversee the pipeline planning process with each of the delivery partners, ensuring partner resource availability in a timely manner to support Databricks services opportunities. * Allocation and outsourcing of Projects to Services partners. This includes selecting the appropriate partner for the project and working with the partner closely to ensure project success. * Work with our legal, people operations and other cross functional organization to support bi directional contractual negotiations * Advocate for the Partner's needs internally; managing any escalations and issues on projects being delivered by partners. * Develop, implement, and monitor Key Performance Indicators for each Services partner. * Coach, Mentor junior members of the team, and partner resource What we look for: * Extensive industry experience including resource management and demand pipeline management and record of success in navigating and driving engagements with large IT organizations with a focus on managed or professional service delivery * Extensive experience within a professional services organization as a partner Manager, and/or Consulting Manager. * Experience managing partner or third-party organization enablement including upskilling teams to provide delivery capabilities. * Excel at working directly with Partners and customers to gather, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as they relate to technology. * Experience managing commercial agreements with partners including statements of works to support services management. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Tacto

LEAP IS OUR FAST TRACK FOR SHARP GENERALISTS WHO WANT TO BUILD SOMETHING MEANINGFUL AT THE FRONTIER OF INDUSTRIAL AI Many of our best people come from generalist backgrounds, e.g., founded sth on their own, worked in consulting, finance, or high-growth tech. They've seen what great looks like and at some point, decided they want real ownership and impact over outcomes instead of watching from the sidelines. When you want to be a builder, this program is for you. We're hiring 5+ special roles across our commercial and product teams. You bring the toolkit, we give you ownership, resources, and a playground to build. Generalist means you're not easily boxed into one function or don't yet know where you want to specialize. You've operated across strategy, operations, sales, commercial, product, tech, or all of the above. Some of you have done that by building your own company or starting an initiative. Others have done it within high-performance environments like strategy consulting, venture capital, or finance. You learned to pick up new domains fast, structure hard problems, and deliver under pressure. Now you want to use those skills to build something meaningful with real ownership to make it work. If one of the positions seems like the perfect fit, apply directly for that role. If you're interested in multiple positions and the above sounds good, or you are interested in Tacto in general, apply to Tacto Leap - we'll figure out together where you'll have the highest impact. We look for the right mindset and potential - not the biggest egos. Let's talk if you think the above is intriguing. WHERE YOU'D COME IN 3-10y experience * Chief of Staff - Right hand to the CEO. Own Talent & Org Development, build the systems that let Tacto scale, and grow your scope from there. * Expansion Lead - Enterprise - Move Tacto upmarket. Build the enterprise playbook, the team, and the processes from zero. * Expansion Lead - International - Take Tacto beyond DACH. You'd run the entire international expansion, end to end. * Forward Deployed Lead - Lead the team that turns our platform into millions in savings for actual manufacturing companies. You own how customers get value. * People & Performance Lead: Build the infrastructure that makes Tacto's team perform at its best. * Talent Lead: Own how Tacto attracts and hires the best talent out there 1-3y experience * (Sr.) Product Marketing Manager - Shape how Tacto shows up in the market. Positioning, launches, enablement. * (Sr.) Product Manager - Run a product area end to end. Define AI agents, ship features, talk to customers, measure what works. * Revenue Operations - Build the systems that make our whole revenue function run. * Customer Value Manager - Turn customers into power users and turn usage into proven savings * Strategy & Operations - Build Tacto's next growth engine. Find the compounding loops that scale without headcount * Blaze: Fast-Track Sales Program: Our fast-track into sales. Learn, sell and grow with real ownership from day 1. * Business Development Representative: Start your career in Tech Sales & fill the pipeline with qualified opportunities. Don't see a perfect fit? We're growing fast and new roles open every month. If the mission resonates, let's talk - we'll figure it out. Please consider that almost all our positions require a proficiency in German of at least C2. TYPICAL BACKGROUNDS THAT THRIVE HERE We don't care about the exact line on your CV. We care about how you think and how fast you can make things happen in new territory. However, most people who join through this program come from one of these paths: * Ex-Founders (exited, pivoted, or closed) - you've done the 0-to-1 thing. You want the next chapter with more resources, a great team, and a market that's ready * Ex-Consulting - you know how to structure ambiguity and deliver under pressure. Now you want to own what happens after the recommendation * Ex-Venture Capital / Private Equity / Investment Banking - you've evaluated hundreds of companies from the outside. Now you want to build one from the inside * Ex-High-growth tech (Palantir, Celonis, etc.) - you've already made the leap to tech. Now you want more ownership * Ex-High-growth Startups - you’ve joined a company early and helped it to scale significantly. Now you are looking for a new challenge * Special bees: Our best people did not follow a straight forward career, but shaped their own. If you have done something special that does not fit into a box - we are looking for you! WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN TACTO Growth at the frontier of AI: You shape the future of technology and reinvent how manufacturing works, surrounded by best-in-class talent and leading minds in tech and society who challenge and inspire you to build for impact. We build the future instead of talking about it. Real ownership, real impact: You own outcomes, not tasks. No decks that sit in a drawer. No recommendations you never see implemented. You ship, you measure, you see the result in our organization, our product or in the companies that build the physical world, our customers. A company that bets on you: We hire for potential. High expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is. That is demanding and rewarding and that's where we thrive. HOW THE PROCESS WORKS 1. You apply once - this application covers all roles in the program. No need to pick one upfront. 2. Intro Call (15 min) - Quick chat with our Chief of Staff. We come prepared with a view on where you'd fit and why. 3. Hiring Manager (30 min) - Deeper conversation with the hiring manager for your proposed role. Honest questions, both directions. 4. Leadership Deepdive (30-45 min) - Meet another leader. Talk about where Tacto is going and how you'd fit. 5. Onsite Case Review (~2 hours) - Come to Munich. Work through an actual case with the team. See how we work day to day. OUR BACKGROUND Tacto is building the intelligence layer that connects AI to the physical world of manufacturing, starting with procurement. AI is transforming every industry, but it stops at the factory gate. The knowledge that holds manufacturing together - part costs, suppliers, materials - is scattered across systems and people. Over 50% of a product's cost originates from suppliers, making procurement the single largest cost lever in manufacturing and the missing connection between the digital and the physical world. Yet it still runs on Excel and legacy systems. We're changing that with our Procurement Intelligence Platform, trusted by hundreds of companies running billions of Euros of material. Based in Munich, we are 100+ passionate builders who are in-office, with high expectations, fast growth, and a lot of fun. We are supported by >€50m from Sequoia, Index, and Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans. WHY IT MATTERS Manufacturing forms Europe's economic backbone, driving a fourth of Europe's GDP and providing over 30% of jobs. These hidden champions and global market leaders manufacture the physical world around us, from the machines that build our cities to the medical devices that save lives. But the world is changing. The US dominates the digital world of bits. China is scaling the world of atoms, manufacturing at unprecedented speed and scale. Geopolitics are more uncertain than ever. Europe's strength lies in its deep industrial knowledge through generations of engineering. Manufacturing worldwide runs on European machines and software. But that heritage is only an advantage if we leverage it in the age of AI. Tacto builds the AI that connects Atoms and Bits, empowering our Industrial Base to Stay Stronger and building a lighthouse for European tech. WHAT WE OFFER The people at Tacto are passionate about building the organization, growing themselves, and our product while having fun and being real. We have high expectations, great talent density, and a culture where your ambition, performance, and agency are what count - not where you come from or how big your ego is. You'll grow at the forefront of AI, have real ownership and impact, and be surrounded by the best people in their field who challenge you and make you better every day. That is demanding and rewarding, but that's where we thrive. Besides that you have: * Money: Competitive salary & equity in the company with real upside, so you are invested in our success * Workplace: A vibrant in-office culture (> 4 days/week) in a beautiful office in central Munich * Development: A development budget and regular exposure to exceptional people, e.g., Lunch & Learns, peer mentoring, external speakers * Time off: 26 + 4 vacation days per year (4 fixed “company rest days”) as well as regular off-sites and team events * Health: Wellpass membership, of course, a fruit basket (!), and access to Jobrad, for your health * Family & Social Security: Voluntary pension contribution, voluntary KITA subsidy for your children Tacto is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity. 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