GenAI Forward-Deployed Engineering Lead for Enterprise AI

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

Job summary

Google Cloud seeks a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team in London to lead engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade deployments inside customer environments. You will mentor the team while balancing alignment with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership.

You will empower the team to resolve data readiness, integration, and state-management challenges that hinder enterprise-grade AI maturity, helping customers achieve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 8 years of experience as a sales engineer or technical consultant in a cloud computing environment or customer-facing role.
• 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
• Experience in Python or a similar coding language.
• Experience developing AI/GenAI solutions utilizing AI tools, or designing multi-agent workflows or RAG systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.
• Partner with Sales and Tech Leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech model context protocol, tool-calling, and foundation models, ensuring subject matter expertise in an evolving AI stack.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Skills

Sales engineering experience

Technical leadership

Team management

AI/GenAI experience

AI workflow design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS or equivalent

Master’s or PhD in AI/CS

Tools

Python

AI tools/GenAI platforms

Tool-calling protocols

Job description

Google Cloud seeks a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team in London to lead engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade deployments inside customer environments. You will mentor the team while balancing alignment with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership.

You will empower the team to resolve data readiness, integration, and state-management challenges that hinder enterprise-grade AI maturity, helping customers achieve