Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI, Google Cloud Platform

Google LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in London is seeking software engineers with strong ML infra and GenAI experience to design, deploy, and optimize AI-powered solutions for customers. The role emphasizes collaboration with customers, rapid prototyping, and contribution to core product codebases.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development or 1 year with an advanced degree, plus hands-on ML infrastructure exposure and GenAI knowledge. In-person interviews are common during hiring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 5 years of software development experience or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure or related ML fields.
• Experience with GenAI concepts and AI generation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to understand business issues and design, co-develop, debug, and deploy custom conversational AI agents.
• Act as a high-level problem solver, write bespoke code, and contribute to core product codebase to resolve critical issues.
• Systematize learnings from customer engagements by creating reusable tools and accelerators.
• Provide feedback to Product/Engineering to influence strategy and identify gaps.
• Advise customers on agent improvement, CI/CD pipelines, and production readiness.

Skills

Software development

ML infrastructure

GenAI concepts

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Dialogflow

Job description

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X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• 1 year of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• Experience with GenAI concepts (e.g., LLM, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) and text, image, video, or audio generation.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in solving customer problems by navigating ambiguous requirements to deliver effective technical solutions and tangible business outcomes.
• Experience in Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Storage and Dialogflow.
• Experience in prompt development, model evaluation, and the creative application of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Ability to be flexible and resilient in dynamic environments to take ownership and respond to urgent business or customer issues.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Responsibilities

• Partner with select, customers to understand their business issues. Design, co-develop, debug, and deploy custom conversational AI agents and solutions to accelerate their time to value.
• Act as a high-level problem solver, empowered to write bespoke code, develop custom tooling, and contribute directly to the core product codebase to resolve critical customer issues.
• Be able to systematize your learnings from customer engagements by creating reusable tools, building documentation and accelerators, and establishing best practices that can be used across the organization.
• Serve as a critical feedback loop to our Product and Engineering teams. Synthesize firsthand insights from the field to influence product strategy and identify gaps.
• Act as a subject matter expert, providing technical guidance and best practices to customers on agent improvement, performance tuning, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and production readiness.

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