Senior Principal Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Cloudera; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH Policy

Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Continued Career Development

Comprehensive Benefits

Paid Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a seasoned Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with enterprise customers and design scalable AI/ML solutions on Cloudera. You will build full-stack AI apps and guide customers from prototype to production with a focus on agentic workflows.

Bring 7+ years of experience with ML systems, MLOps, and enterprise-grade architectures. Strong collaboration, autonomy, and willingness to mentor others are essential. Flexible WFH and strong career development are offered.

Qualifications

• 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 (RAG), and agentic workflows
• Deep understanding of MLOps practices including evaluation, observability, serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• Experience designing and implementing scalable AI solution architectures aligned to enterprise standards (security, governance, compliance, etc.)
• The ability to engage directly with customers, both technical and executive audiences - to translate needs into actionable technical strategy
• High agency with the ability to operate autonomously and thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving customer environments
• A collaborative mindset and passion for enabling others through mentorship, internal enablement, or reusable tooling

Responsibilities

• Build & Prototype AI Apps - Develop full-stack AI/ML applications on Cloudera to demonstrate enterprise use cases.
• Partner with Strategic Customers - Work with customer teams to move prototypes toward production.
• Shape Enterprise AI Architecture - Advise on roadmaps, design, deployment and use cases.
• Codify Solution Patterns - Create repeatable reference architectures and starter kits.
• Multiply impact - Mentor teams and provide reusable tooling and playbooks.

Skills

Full-stack ML engineering

AI/ML skills

Prototype AI apps

Customer engagement

Mentorship & enablement

Tools

NVIDIA GPUs

Spark

Iceberg

NiFi

Job description

Cloudera is seeking a seasoned Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with enterprise customers and design scalable AI/ML solutions on Cloudera. You will build full-stack AI apps and guide customers from prototype to production with a focus on agentic workflows.

Bring 7+ years of experience with ML systems, MLOps, and enterprise-grade architectures. Strong collaboration, autonomy, and willingness to mentor others are essential. Flexible WFH and strong career development are offered.