Cloudera

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Cloudera
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Remote, JapanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and prototype full-stack AI and agentic applications on Cloudera for enterprise use cases.
  • Partner directly with strategic customer technical and executive teams to move AI initiatives from prototype to production readiness.
  • Advise customers on AI roadmaps, use-case prioritization, deployment considerations, and business alignment.
  • Design scalable AI solution architectures that meet enterprise security, governance, and compliance standards.
  • Codify successful solutions into repeatable reference architectures, productized solutions, starter kits, and internal playbooks.
  • Mentor Cloudera teams, contribute reusable tooling and enablement resources, and relay customer and field feedback to Product teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems, including 2–3 years building generative AI or agentic applications.
  • Strong hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills with experience building full-stack AI 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 architectures aligned with security, governance, and compliance standards.
  • Ability to engage directly with technical and executive customer audiences and translate needs into technical strategy.
  • Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous, fast-moving customer environments and enable others through mentorship or reusable tooling.
  • Preferred experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, the Cloudera platform, Spark, Iceberg, NiFi, NVIDIA GPUs, inference optimization, model serving, or distributed AI workloads.

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off and Unplugged Days supporting work-life balance.
  • Flexible work-from-home policy; the posting is marked remote.
  • Mental and physical wellness programs.
  • Phone and internet reimbursement program.
  • Continued career development, comprehensive benefits, and competitive packages.
  • Paid volunteer time and employee resource groups.

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About Cloudera

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloudera builds the Cloudera Data Platform, an enterprise data stack for hybrid cloud and on‑premises environments that unifies data engineering, warehousing, streaming, and machine learning with governance. It sells subscriptions and managed services to large enterprises across regulated, data‑intensive industries. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, the company was taken private in 2021 in a transaction led by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R).

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