Applied AI Specialist

Business Area

Corp. StrategySeniority Level:

Mid-Senior levelJob Description:

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

About the Applied AI Team

The Applied AI team exists to help the world's largest enterprises move beyond AI experimentation and into production. Our mission is to identify, validate, and accelerate high-impact AI use cases that deliver measurable business outcomes across regulated and data-intensive industries. Working at the intersection of industry expertise, AI technology, and enterprise data platforms, we partner directly with 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 conviction around high-impact private AI use cases that can be successfully deployed into production. Operating within a specialized regional pod, you will lead technical disco