Enterprise AI Engineer — Frontline ML Deployment

Cloudera; United States; Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Flexible WFH Policy

Mental & Physical Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Career development

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a seasoned Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with customers and design scalable enterprise AI/ML solutions. You will develop full-stack AI/ML applications, partner with strategic customers, and shape enterprise AI architectures to deliver measurable business impact.

In this customer-facing role, you will work both remotely and on-site, with travel up to 20%. You’ll mentor teams, codify patterns, and help accelerate AI adoption across our most strategic enterprises.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems, including 2-4 years experience building ML systems or GenAI/agentic applications
• Strong hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills
• Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic workflows
• Deep understanding of LLMOps/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)
• 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 how AI and agentic systems solve real enterprise use cases
• Partner with Strategic Customers - Work directly with customer teams to drive AI and agentic use cases from early prototype toward production readiness
• Shape Enterprise AI Architecture - Advise customer leaders on AI roadmaps, solution design, deployment, and AI use cases
• Codify Solution Patterns - Standardize successful patterns into repeatable reference architectures, productized solutions, starter kits, and internal playbooks
• Multiply impact - Be a thought leader, mentor Cloudera teams, and contribute to resources that grow our AI capability. Channel field and customer signal back to Product teams to improve our AI platform and products

Skills

Full-stack ML

ML engineering

MLOps

Foundation models

RAG

Customer engagement

Autonomy

Mentorship

NVIDIA GPUs

AI frameworks

Education

BSc/MSc/PhD in related field

Tools

NVIDIA GPUs

AI frameworks

Job description

Cloudera is seeking a seasoned Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with customers and design scalable enterprise AI/ML solutions. You will develop full-stack AI/ML applications, partner with strategic customers, and shape enterprise AI architectures to deliver measurable business impact.

In this customer-facing role, you will work both remotely and on-site, with travel up to 20%. You’ll mentor teams, codify patterns, and help accelerate AI adoption across our most strategic enterprises.