Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, Cloud & Conversational AI

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 89,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking an Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Applied AI to lead technical delivery for Conversational AI pilots and establish Customer User Journeys for major clients at their site locations. You’ll transform initial prototypes into production-ready AI solutions, owning end-to-end engineering life-cycle, including secure and scalable deployments.

In this high-travel role, you’ll collaborate with Google Cloud Go-To-Market teams and leverage Gemini models and Vertex AI.

Qualifications

• 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., 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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead developer for complex Conversational AI and CX applications, transitioning from prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows that drive measurable ROI.
• 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 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.

Skills

Python

Cloud AI architectures

Terraform

Full-stack development

Enterprise IT integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS

Master’s or PhD in AI/CS

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Terraform

Job description

Google is seeking an Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Applied AI to lead technical delivery for Conversational AI pilots and establish Customer User Journeys for major clients at their site locations. You’ll transform initial prototypes into production-ready AI solutions, owning end-to-end engineering life-cycle, including secure and scalable deployments.

In this high-travel role, you’ll collaborate with Google Cloud Go-To-Market teams and leverage Gemini models and Vertex AI.