Staff GenAI Engineer - Production-Grade AI at Scale

Google; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineer to act as an embedded builder, bridging frontier AI products with production-ready realities at partner sites. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke agentic solutions, addressing data readiness and state-management challenges in enterprise environments.

You will join the Go-To-Market AI team, leveraging Google's portfolio and DeepMind insights to drive customer success and shape the future of cloud AI deployments worldwide.

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 programming

AI systems design

Cloud architecture

Data pipelines (vector databases)

AI delivery lifecycle

Customer discovery facilitation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS

Master’s/PhD in AI/CS

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

ADK

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineer to act as an embedded builder, bridging frontier AI products with production-ready realities at partner sites. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke agentic solutions, addressing data readiness and state-management challenges in enterprise environments.

You will join the Go-To-Market AI team, leveraging Google's portfolio and DeepMind insights to drive customer success and shape the future of cloud AI deployments worldwide.