AI Forward-Deployed Engineer, Cloud — Public Sector

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Innovation team, collaborating with highly regulated clients to transform operations using advanced AI/ML. You will embed with customers, building bespoke agentic solutions and shipping code directly within their environments.

You will address production blockers, data readiness, and state-management challenges, while providing white-glove deployments and feedback to Google Cloud’s product roadmap.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development using Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience taking production-grade AI-driven solutions from conception to launch and architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience building pipelines for structured and unstructured data using vector databases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures.
• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with customers.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Security Check UK security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead developer for AI applications, transitioning prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows.
• Architect and code the connective tissue between Google’s AI products and customer's live infrastructure.
• Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to ensure agentic systems meet requirements for accuracy, safety, and latency.
• Identify repeatable field patterns and friction points in Google’s AI stack and convert them into reusable modules or feature requests.
• Co-build with customer engineering teams to instill Google-grade development best practices.

Skills

Python

AI/ML deployment

AI systems architecture

Customer discovery

Security clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or CS

Master's or PhD in AI/CS

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking an AI Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Innovation team, collaborating with highly regulated clients to transform operations using advanced AI/ML. You will embed with customers, building bespoke agentic solutions and shipping code directly within their environments.

You will address production blockers, data readiness, and state-management challenges, while providing white-glove deployments and feedback to Google Cloud’s product roadmap.