Business Area:
Corp. Strategy
Seniority Level:
Director
Job Description:

Cloudera’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function sits within the Applied AI organization and is a specialized AI/ML engineering team focused on accelerating AI adoption within our most strategic enterprise customers. We embed directly with customers to rapidly pilot AI use cases, solve real-world business challenges, and help operationalize advanced AI capabilities within enterprise environments.
Cloudera FDEs operate at the intersection of customer engineering, AI innovation, and enterprise deployment—driving high-impact AI outcomes for customers and codifying solution patterns for repeatable delivery at scale.
We are looking for a seasoned, full-stack ML engineer who can embed with customers to design technical use cases and ship scalable enterprise AI/ML solutions on the Cloudera platform.

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer you will:
- Develop full-stack AI/ML applications on Cloudera to demonstrate how AI and agentic systems solve real enterprise use cases.




- Work directly with customer teams to drive AI and agentic use cases from early prototype toward production readiness.
- Advise customer leaders on AI roadmaps, solution design, deployment, and AI use cases.
- Standardize successful patterns into repeatable reference architectures, productized solutions, starter kits, and internal playbooks.
- Act as a thought leader, mentor Cloudera teams, and contribute to resources that grow our overall AI capability.
- Channel field and customer feedback back to Product teams to continuously improve our AI platform and products.

We’re excited about you if you have:
- 7+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems.
- 2–4 years of experience specifically focused on building ML systems or GenAI and agentic applications.
- Solid hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills.
- Demonstrated experience building full-stack ML applications or agen

📌 Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cloudera
📍 Bengaluru