Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO Policy and Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH Policy

Mental & Physical Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Paid Volunteer Time

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking an seasoned AI/ML leader in the UAE to build and scale full-stack AI applications and agentic systems for enterprise use cases. You will partner with key customers to move prototypes to production and advise on AI roadmaps and deployment strategies.

You will codify reference architectures, mentor teams, and collaborate with Product to improve the AI platform. Strong LLMOps, security, and governance focus are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production-grade systems experience.
• 2-3 years building Generative AI or agentic apps.
• Strong software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills.
• Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic workflows.
• Deep understanding of LLMOps/MLOps including evaluation and observability.
• Ability to design scalable AI architectures aligned with enterprise security and governance.
• Strong communication skills to engage with both technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and prototype full-stack AI applications and agentic systems to solve enterprise use cases
• Partner with strategic customers to drive AI use cases from prototype to production readiness
• Advise customer leaders on AI roadmaps, prioritization, and deployment strategies
• Codify successful solution patterns into repeatable reference architectures and playbooks
• Mentor Cloudera teams and channel customer feedback to Product teams to improve the AI platform

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

AI/ML

LLMOps/MLOps

Large language models

Tools

Spark

Iceberg

NiFi

NVIDIA GPUs

Cloudera platform

Job description

About the Company

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world's largest enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Build and prototype full-stack AI applications and agentic systems to solve enterprise use cases
• Partner with strategic customers to drive AI use cases from prototype to production readiness
• Advise customer leaders on AI roadmaps, prioritization, and deployment strategies
• Codify successful solution patterns into repeatable reference architectures and playbooks
• Mentor Cloudera teams and channel customer feedback to Product teams to improve the AI platform

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems
• 2-3 years of experience building Generative AI or agentic applications
• Strong software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills
• Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic workflows
• Deep understanding of LLMOps/MLOps practices including evaluation and observability
• Ability to design scalable AI architectures aligned with enterprise security and governance
• Strong communication skills to engage with both technical and executive audiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience using the Cloudera platform
• Experience with open source big data technologies like Spark, Iceberg, or NiFi
• Experience with AI infrastructure, NVIDIA GPUs, or distributed AI workloads

Benefits

• Generous PTO Policy and Unplugged Days
• Flexible WFH Policy
• Mental & Physical Wellness programs
• Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Paid Volunteer Time