Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI, Google Cloud

Google LLC; Paris; Hybride; EUR 104 000 - 106 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity

Bonus 15%

Benefits

Résumé du poste

Google LLC in Paris seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Applied AI to own end-to-end delivery of Conversational AI pilots for our largest customers. You transform prototypes into production-grade agentic workflows, leading technical delivery at customer sites with travel.

You’ll combine software engineering, ML ops, and cloud infrastructure to connect Google AI products to live enterprise systems, APIs, and data sources, partnering with customer teams to deliver scalable, secure,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of software development experience using Python or similar languages.
• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (GCP) and deploying resources with Terraform.

Responsabilités

• Lead technical delivery for Conversational AI pilots and customer journeys at client sites.
• Transform conversational prototypes into production-ready agentic workflows.
• Collaborate with customer engineering teams to implement Google-grade development best practices.
• Develop flows and back-end integration connecting AI products with live enterprise infrastructure.
• Build evaluation pipelines and observability for agent workloads.

Connaissances

Python

Multi-agent systems

Debugging agent logic

RAG

High-traffic systems

Travel willingness

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS or related field

Master's or PhD in AI/CS/related

Outils

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Terraform

APIs integration

Description du poste

Google welcomes people with disabilities. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Paris, France; Zürich, Switzerland; London, UK.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development using Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience deploying resources using Terraform or similar tools, to automate the setup of agents, functions, or networking.
• Experience building full-stack applications that interact with enterprise IT infrastructures, and developing external customer projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience implementing multi-agent systems using frameworks like ReAct and self-reflection.
• Experience debugging Agent logic and optimizing tool selection, including tracing conversation IDs across microservices to identify and resolve failures in real-time.
• Experience connecting agents to enterprise knowledge bases and optimizing Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chunking to prevent hallucinations.
• Track record of troubleshooting live, high-traffic systems during critical windows.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

About the job

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Applied AI, you are the Agent Engineer and the primary driver for our customers' most critical AI initiatives. You take initial conversational prototypes and transform them into production-ready solutions, owning the end-to-end engineering life-cycle, including the transition from "Art-of-the-Possible" to real-world business value and scalable, secure AI systems. In this high-travel, high-impact role, you will be focused on leading technical delivery for Conversational AI pilots and establishing the first Customer User Journeys (CUJs) for our largest customers at their sites. You will require a deep understanding of software engineering, machine learning operations, and cloud infrastructure.

It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.

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

France: €104000 - €106000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Serve as the lead developer for complex Conversational AI and CX applications, transitioning from prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows (e.g., multi-agent systems, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers) that drive measurable return on investment.
• Architect and code conversational flows that are functional and optimized for the "connective tissue" between Google’s Conversational AI products and customers’ live infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data silos, and security perimeters.
• Build high-performance evaluation (Eval) pipelines and observability frameworks to optimize agentic workloads, focusing on reasoning loops, tool selection, and reducing latency while maintaining production-grade security and networking.
• Identify repeatable field patterns and technical "friction points" in Google’s AAI stack, converting them into reusable modules or product feature requests for Engineering teams.
• Co-build with customer engineering teams to instill Google-grade development best practices, ensuring long term project success and high end-user adoption.

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