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Cloudera

Applied AI Specialist

AI summary of the role

Cloudera's Applied AI team seeks an Applied AI Specialist to drive enterprise AI adoption from discovery to production.

What you’ll do

  • Lead AI discovery workshops with strategic partners like NVIDIA to identify and prioritize private AI opportunities.
  • Conduct deep technical and business discovery with enterprise customers to scope high-value AI use cases.
  • Assess data architecture, governance, security, and infrastructure constraints to evaluate enterprise AI readiness.
  • Develop proofs of concept, reference architectures, and solution frameworks to validate feasibility.

What you’ll bring

  • Strong technical foundation in data science and hands-on experience with code, APIs, and notebooks.
  • Practical experience building or supporting AI applications across ML, deep learning, computer vision, and generative AI.
  • Proven success in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, consulting, or customer engineering.
  • Ability to evaluate data quality, governance, security, and infrastructure constraints for private AI deployments.

Technologies

Python · APIs · MLOps · NVIDIA AI Enterprise · NIMs · NeMo · RAPIDs · computer vision · generative AI · agentic systems

About Cloudera

Hybrid data-and-AI platform letting the world's largest enterprises store, govern and run analytics plus GenAI on-prem and across clouds, built on open-source big-data tech.

Private Late · 2000–5000 people

Source and classification

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customers to solve complex business challenges using machine learning, computer vision, predictive analytics, generative AI, and agentic systems, while developing the technical conviction needed to move initiatives from concept to production. The team combines Applied AI Specialists, strategic ecosystem partners such as NVIDIA, and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) in a unified operating model designed to rapidly move AI initiatives from discovery to deployment. Applied AI Specialists work directly with customers to discover opportunities, validate technical feasibility, and establish technical conviction, while FDE teams build and deploy qualified solutions. Together, we help organizations operationalize AI securely, govern it responsibly, and scale it across the enterprise. About the Role As an Applied AI Specialist, your mission is to identify, validate, and establish technical
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