Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Overview

Forward Deployed AI Engineer in Cloudera’s Applied AI org (Forward Deployed Engineering), embedding with strategic enterprise customers to pilot, deploy, and operationalize AI use cases.

What you'll do

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

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems.
• 2-3 years of experience building Generative AI or agentic applications.
• Strong hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills for full-stack AI/agentic systems.
• Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search, RAG, and agentic workflows.
• Deep understanding of LLMOps/MLOps practices including evaluation, observability, serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to design scalable AI solution architectures aligned to enterprise standards (security, governance, compliance).
• Ability to engage with customers across technical and executive audiences.

Details

• Location line: Japan-Remote.
• Work mode indicated as remote.