Applied AI Specialist — Discovery to Production

Cloudera; Washington; Remote; USD 171,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO Policy

Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH Policy

Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Career Development

Benefits and Compensation

Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Cloudera in the United States seeks an Applied AI Specialist to identify, validate, and establish technical conviction around high-impact private AI use cases ready for production. You will operate in a regional pod, lead in-depth technical workshops, and collaborate with NVIDIA to accelerate deployments.

You will work with enterprise architects, data scientists, and platform teams to assess opportunities, define concrete implementation paths, and separate production-ready ideas from

Qualifications

• Strong technical foundation in data science and working directly with code, APIs, notebooks, and enterprise architectures.
• Experience building or supporting AI applications across ML, DL, computer vision, time-series analytics, predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and generative AI.
• Proven success in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, consulting, or customer engineering for complex enterprise tech initiatives.
• Ability to evaluate data quality, governance, security, compliance, and infrastructure readiness for private AI deployments.
• Excellent ability to engage technical and executive audiences to connect business outcomes with implementation strategies.
• Proficiency with Python, APIs, cloud-native architectures, data pipelines, MLOps, and modern AI development ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI discovery workshops with ecosystem providers to identify and prioritize private AI opportunities.
• Conduct deep technical and business discovery to identify AI workloads suitable for production deployment.
• Assess data architecture, governance, and security to determine feasibility of private AI deployments.
• Develop regional domain leadership by building expertise in strategic industries.
• Create lightweight proofs of concept, reference architectures, and demonstrations for feasibility validation.
• Translate opportunities into technical requirements and hand off to engineering teams.
• Document best practices and reusable architectures for future customer use.

Skills

Builder mindset

Hands-on AI experience

Enterprise discovery

Data readiness

Executive communication

Technical proficiency

Tools

Python

APIs

Cloud-native

MLOps

Data pipelines

Job description

Cloudera in the United States seeks an Applied AI Specialist to identify, validate, and establish technical conviction around high-impact private AI use cases ready for production. You will operate in a regional pod, lead in-depth technical workshops, and collaborate with NVIDIA to accelerate deployments.

You will work with enterprise architects, data scientists, and platform teams to assess opportunities, define concrete implementation paths, and separate production-ready ideas from