Frontier GenAI Engineer, Forward-Deployed

Google; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 220,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic partners, moving from prototypes to production-grade, scalable agentic workflows within the customer environment.

You will collaborate across teams to resolve integration challenges, data readiness, and state‑management issues, shaping deployment at scale and impacting product roadmap through real‑world insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development using Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience building pipelines for structured and unstructured data using both vector databases and RAG‑like architectures to power enterprise AI solutions.
• Experience taking production‑grade AI‑driven solutions from conception to launch for customers.
• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with customers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a team lead and developer within the strategic AI partner for AI applications, working with partner’s teams to transition from rapid prototypes to production‑grade, replicable agentic workflows (multi‑agent systems, MCP servers) that drive measurable ROI.
• Build high‑performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to ensure partner developed agentic systems meet requirements for accuracy, safety, and latency.
• Identify repeatable partner and field patterns and friction points in Google’s AI stack, converting them into reusable modules or formal product feature requests for the Engineering teams.
• Co‑build with a strategic AI partner’s own Forward Deployed Engineering teams to instill Google‑grade development best practices, ensuring long‑term project success and high end‑user adoption.
• Help partners to build their own agentic delivery capabilities to set them up for long‑term success, focusing on the ROI at customer engagements ensuring customer activation.

Skills

Python

AI systems design

Cloud architectures

Data pipelines (vector DBs, RAG)

Customer discovery sessions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

ADK

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Google is seeking a Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic partners, moving from prototypes to production-grade, scalable agentic workflows within the customer environment.

You will collaborate across teams to resolve integration challenges, data readiness, and state‑management issues, shaping deployment at scale and impacting product roadmap through real‑world insights.