Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Australia (Senior/Principal Level)

ClouderaSydneyHybridFull-time1 week ago

Cloudera is seeking a seasoned full-stack ML engineer to join its Forward Deployed Engineering team, embedding with strategic enterprise customers to design and ship scalable AI/ML solutions. The role requires 7+ years of production systems experience, including 2-4 years in ML/GenAI, and strong skills in AI frameworks, LLMOps, and enterprise architecture. This is a hybrid position based in Sydney, Australia.

What you'll do

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

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Machine LearningGenAIAgentic SystemsFoundation ModelsContext EngineeringFine-tuningSemantic SearchRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

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AWSAzureGCPCloudera PlatformApache SparkApache IcebergApache NiFiNVIDIA GPUs

Soft skills

CollaborationMentorshipAutonomyHigh agencyCommunicationThought leadership

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