Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Overview

Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedding with strategic enterprise customers to pilot, deploy, and operationalize AI applications, particularly generative/agentic solutions.

What you'll do

• Build and prototype full-stack AI applications on Cloudera for enterprise use cases.
• Partner with customer teams to move AI and agentic use cases from prototype to production readiness.
• Advise customer leaders on AI roadmaps, use case prioritization, and deployment considerations.
• Codify successful solution patterns into repeatable reference architectures and internal playbooks.
• Mentor teams and contribute resources to grow Cloudera AI capability.
• Feed field/customer signals back to product teams to improve AI platform and products.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems.
• 2-3 years of experience building generative AI or agentic applications.
• Hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML for full-stack AI or agentic systems.
• Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search, and RAG.
• Deep understanding of LLMOps/MLOps practices (evaluation, observability, serving, monitoring, lifecycle management).
• Experience designing scalable enterprise-aligned AI architectures (security, governance, compliance, etc.).
• Ability to engage with technical and executive customer audiences to convert needs into technical strategy.

Details

• Customer-facing role combining remote and in-person engagement.
• Occasional travel may be required up to 20%.