Startup Cloud Solutions Engineer & AI Architect

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

Job summary

Google Cloud is recruiting a Customer Engineer for the UK/IE Startups & Scaleups Growth team. You will lead high-impact technical engagements with scaling startups, helping founders and developers accelerate product delivery on Google Cloud.

Responsibilities include delivering workshops, shaping architectural designs, and guiding AI workloads with Gemini and partner models, while building trusted advisor relationships across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in a customer-facing technical role in cloud computing.
• Experience designing, architecting and deploying cloud-native apps and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver presentations, product demos, and technical workshops at events and accelerators.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships with startup CTOs, founders and engineers.
• Help customers design and scale data platforms using BigQuery, streaming and vector databases.
• Guide on Generative AI workloads, LLMs, RAG systems and AI workflows with Gemini and partner ecosystems.
• Collaborate with Sales to qualify opportunities and design secure, scalable cloud architectures.

Skills

Cloud-native design

Kubernetes

Data pipelines

Customer-facing

Startup/advisor experience

Generative AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GKE

BigQuery

Spark

Kafka

Vertex AI Vector Search

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Google Cloud is recruiting a Customer Engineer for the UK/IE Startups & Scaleups Growth team. You will lead high-impact technical engagements with scaling startups, helping founders and developers accelerate product delivery on Google Cloud.

Responsibilities include delivering workshops, shaping architectural designs, and guiding AI workloads with Gemini and partner models, while building trusted advisor relationships across engineering teams.