Principal Solutions Engineer - AI Research - Cloudera

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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.

Principal Solutions Engineer - AI Research

We are on a mission to make data and analytics easy and accessible to everyone. The work we do empowers any organization—from the world's largest enterprises to small nonprofits—to use data to solve some of the most complex challenges that impact businesses, communities, and lives.

As the Principal Solutions Engineer - AI Research , you will use engineering, math, computational science, domain knowledge, and scientific methods to:

Approach the customer with quantitative codesign methods to include elaborating end-to-end data and software models based on domain use case, evaluate source inputs, evaluate constraints, evaluate likely outcomes, topological operational data metrics and boundary values, and computational needs (tractable or intractable problem)

Investigate problems and open questions in a domain to further understand the computational engineering needs of specific problems and the capabilities of Cloudera to serve those needs

Design and run computational engineering pipelines for prototyping AI solutions that clients target for production implementation

Turn promising and practical results into customer solutions to include methodologies, algorithms, technologies, tools, or processes

Develop and innovate advanced techniques and methods in corpora lifecycle management, domain skills definition, model development and tuning, agent development and inferencing

Strategic Advisor to Cloudera Engineering on new technologies, methods, and algorithms required in the product to keep Cloudera competitive in AI

Engage with the community on the art of the possible, AI visionary events to inspire clients to build AI solutions on Cloudera

At Cloudera , we are Customer Driven & People First. We believe in the power of our people because when we bring together bold ideas, collaboration, and purpose, we do not just imagine the future—we help build it.

The Role:

This position will serve as a customer-facing, hands-on technologist with a track record of success. You will be the technical authority for Cloudera ’s Enterprise AI portfolio, bridging the gap between complex data architectures and actionable AI business outcomes.

In this senior individual contributor role, you will own the technical sales strategy for the industry’s only platform bringing AI to data anywhere. You will not only demonstrate technology but also inspi