Cloudera

Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Senior/Principal Level)

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2 days ago
Remote, IrelandSenior / Staff+
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Responsibilities

  • Build and prototype full-stack AI/ML applications and agentic systems on Cloudera for enterprise use cases.
  • Partner directly with strategic customer teams to move AI and agentic use cases from prototypes toward production readiness.
  • Advise technical and executive customer leaders on AI roadmaps, solution design, deployment, and use cases.
  • Design scalable enterprise AI architectures aligned with security, governance, and compliance standards.
  • Codify successful approaches into reference architectures, productized solutions, starter kits, and internal playbooks.
  • Mentor Cloudera teams, contribute to internal enablement, and relay customer and field feedback to Product teams.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems, including 2–4 years building ML systems or GenAI/agentic applications.
  • Strong hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills with experience building full-stack ML applications or agentic systems.
  • Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and agentic workflows.
  • Deep understanding of LLMOps/MLOps practices including evaluation, observability, serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
  • Experience designing scalable enterprise AI solution architectures and working with technical and executive customer audiences.
  • Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, the Cloudera platform, open-source big data technologies, and AI infrastructure is advantageous.
  • Experience with Spark, Iceberg, NiFi, NVIDIA GPUs, inference optimization, model serving, or distributed AI workloads is advantageous.
  • Ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous customer environments and enable others through mentorship or reusable tooling.

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off, Unplugged Days, flexible work-from-home policy, wellness programs, phone and internet reimbursement, career development, comprehensive benefits, paid volunteer time, and employee resource groups.
  • Customer-facing remote and in-person engagement with occasional travel of up to 20%.
  • The role is not eligible for immigration support or relocation.

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Forward Deployed
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About Cloudera

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloudera is the only data and AI platform company that brings AI to data anywhere: in clouds, data centers, and at the edge. Cloudera delivers 100% of data in all forms–whether it is in Cloudera or anywhere in the entire data estate. The world’s largest organizations rely on Cloudera to fuel insights that boost bottom lines, safeguard against threats, and save lives. Learn more at Cloudera.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recruitment Fraud Alert It has come to our attention that job seekers have been contacted about fake job opportunities with Cloudera from individuals fraudulently posing as Cloudera employees. These recruiting fraud schemes often include requests for personal information and payments. Be aware that Cloudera will never request a payment as part of its recruitment process. Additionally, Cloudera will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process. Any information submitted to Cloudera in relation to a job application should only be through our official career portal (https://www.cloudera.com/careers.html). Email communications from Cloudera will come from an email address ending in @cloudera.com. If you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with law enforcement authorities. Cloudera is not responsible for fraudulent job offers and/or any claims, damages, expenses, or other inconvenience connected to recruiting scams.

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