GenAI Forward‑Deployed Engineering Manager

Google LLC; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team in London. You will lead engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade solutions, coding, debugging, and deploying bespoke agentic systems directly within customer environments.

You will provide deep-dive technical mentorship to your team while aligning with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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 the team maintains 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

Python

AI tools

GenAI solutions

Multi-agent workflows

State management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master’s or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Python

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team in London. You will lead engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade solutions, coding, debugging, and deploying bespoke agentic systems directly within customer environments.

You will provide deep-dive technical mentorship to your team while aligning with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership.