AI Innovation Engineer, Google Cloud

Google; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably.

Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. In this role you will accelerate customer value by delivering innovative, repeatable, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; 8 years in software or data engineering.
• Experience with ML methodologies (deep learning, RL) and AI operations.
• Experience with Generative AI frameworks and vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and build autonomous agentic workflows using ML and generative AI in end-to-end solutions.
• Partner with client leads to identify high-impact AI use cases and translate them into PRDs with CUJs and success metrics.
• Evaluate and integrate AI solutions with relational DBs, data lakes, and real-time streaming architectures.
• Ensure production-first mindset with CI/CD and IaC (Terraform) for reproducible, secure environments.
• Create clear technical guides to hand off POC to engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

ML/DL

AI Ops

API Design

LangChain

Vertex AI

Vector Databases

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Zürich, Switzerland; Munich, Germany; London, UK.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software or data engineering, including one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java), and with design patterns, testing frameworks, and API contract design.
• Experience using machine learning methodologies (deep learning, reinforced learning), model identification, selection and AI operations (e.g., model monitoring).
• Experience using Generative AI and agentic orchestration utilizing frameworks (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI, or Vertex AI Agent Builder) and vector databases.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in financial services, and with the regulatory and operational clearing, settlement, or custody.
• Experience with FSI regulatory practices and data residency, encryption at rest/transit (CMEK), and "explainable AI" requirements in banking.
• Experience with data modeling of relational, NoSQL, and analytical data modeling (Star Schema, Data Vault).
• Experience in BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub with an ability to drive the discovery phase, moving from a vague business problem to a structured product requirement document (PRD) and a working technical demo.
• Experience working in a high-maturity DevOps culture (e.g., trunk-based development, automated testing, blue/green deployments).

About The Job

In this role, you will accelerate customer value and increase adoption by delivering innovative, repeatable, and enterprise-ready solutions focused on business value. Make Google Cloud the preferred choice for customers by delivering the highest-value, industry relevant solutions.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €150000 - €153000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Design and build autonomous agentic workflows utilizing Machine Learning and generative AI technologies as part of a fully autonomous or human-in-the-loop agentic workflow.
• Partner with client leads (business user) to identify high-impact AI use cases. Translate these into product requirement documents (PRDs), clearly defining critical user journeys (CUJs) and success metrics.
• Evaluate and integrate AI solutions with modern data foundations, including relational databases, data lake houses, and real-time streaming architectures.
• Ensure all prototypes are built with a "production-first" mindset. Implement basic CI/CD pipelines and utilize infrastructure-as-code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform) to ensure environments are reproducible and secure.
• Create clear technical guides to ensure a seamless hand-off from proof-of-concept (POC) to engineering teams.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .