German-Speaking Senior Solutions Engineer | Remote

Cloudera; United States; Remote; USD 171,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO Policy

Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH Policy

Mental & Physical Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Continued Career Development

Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive

Paid Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer who speaks German to join our Sales Engineering team in Switzerland. You will own the technical sales process, craft solutions, and demonstrate AI-enabled data platforms to enterprise customers across Europe.

You will collaborate with Account Managers, architects, and product teams to translate business needs into scalable data and AI solutions, including GenAI and MLOps, while traveling as needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a customer-facing role, ideally in pre-sales for big data platforms, enterprise software, or analytics.
• Ability to create and deliver technical presentations and demonstrations translating complex data and AI into business value.
• Experience with Big Data / Data Warehousing / Relational Databases (e.g., Iceberg, Spark, Hive, Hadoop).
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML ecosystems and GenAI architectures (PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain/LlamaIndex; vector databases; MLOps).
• Experience with one or more Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Operations, Security, and Data Governance considerations for AI models and data assets.
• Unix or Linux environments and shell scripting.
• Experience gathering and understanding customer requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent German language skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical sales process from introductory meetings to post-sales activities for enterprise data, ML, and AI platform solutions.
• Support the technical needs of customers, uncover new use cases for Cloudera’s technology (GenAI-focused).
• Design solutions based on reference architectures and patterns (Open Data Lakehouse, RAG, end-to-end ML pipelines).
• Demonstrate Cloudera products and pipelines to inspire customer buy-in.
• Partner with Account Managers to communicate business value and drive renewals and upsells.
• Present product roadmap and vision to customers to enable bigger thinking.
• Interface with other Cloudera teams to present a unified voice to customers.
• Advocate for customer needs to Product Management and Engineering.
• Participate in external publicity (conferences, meetups, webinars, blogs) on hybrid data platforms and enterprise AI.
• Achieve team targets and engage in knowledge sharing.

Skills

German language

Public speaking

Presales experience

Big data familiarity

Communication skills

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Cloudera is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer who speaks German to join our Sales Engineering team in Switzerland. You will own the technical sales process, craft solutions, and demonstrate AI-enabled data platforms to enterprise customers across Europe.

You will collaborate with Account Managers, architects, and product teams to translate business needs into scalable data and AI solutions, including GenAI and MLOps, while traveling as needed.