Forward Deployed Engineer, Data Cloud, Google Cloud

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is hiring for a Forward Deployed Engineer in Bengaluru to embed with customers, moving data and ML workloads from concept to production on Google Cloud. You will leverage PySpark, SQL, Python and BigQuery to build scalable data foundations for agentic AI solutions.

You will collaborate with customers, de-identify sensitive data, and ensure solutions meet performance and cost goals while learning from field insights to influence product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years in software/data/data cloud domains including Python and SQL.
• Experience with data cloud ecosystem products and languages (e.g., Spark, PySpark, BigQuery, Spanner, Data Catalog, AlloyDB).
• Experience building production-grade data cloud solutions from conception to launch on cloud platforms (GCP).
• Experience training, evaluating, and deploying ML models in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production data and ML workloads with PySpark, SQL, and Python on Google Cloud services.
• Present working proofs with customer data and de-identify sensitive data.
• Create data foundations for agentic solutions including lakehouse architectures and access controls.
• Train, evaluate and deploy ML/agentic components to improve business metrics with monitoring.
• Migrate high-cost analytics and workloads with measurable price-performance results.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Machine learning

Cloud platforms (GCP)

PySpark

BigQuery

Spanner

AlloyDB

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

PySpark

BigQuery

Spanner

AlloyDB

Job description

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, solution architecture, machine learning, or technical consulting, including coding experience in Python and SQL.
• Experience with data cloud ecosystem products, technologies, or languages (e.g., Apache Spark, PySpark, BigQuery, Spanner, Data Catalog, and AlloyDB).
• Experience taking production-grade data cloud solutions from conception to launch, including architecting data systems on cloud platforms (e.g., GCP) and building structured/unstructured pipelines.
• Experience training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models in production.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience implementing multi-agent systems using frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, ADK) and complex patterns (e.g., ReAct, self-reflection, hierarchical delegation).
• Knowledge of large language model (LLM)-native metrics (e.g., tokens/sec, cost-per-request) and techniques for optimizing state management and granular tracing.
• Experience in prompt developing, model evaluation, and the creative application of AI.
• Experience building applications on LLM over enterprise data (e.g., Gemini, agents, RAG, vector search) and evaluating them for quality, latency and cost.
• Experience migrating analytics, Spark or database workloads between platforms with measured cost or performance outcomes.

About the job

Google Cloud’s Data Cloud team builds the data platform behind Google’s agentic AI offerings: BigQuery, Managed Spark, borderless Lakehouse, Spanner, AlloyDB and Knowledge Catalog, integrated with Gemini Enterprise.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on the Data Cloud team, you are an embedded builder who bridges the gap between frontier data solutions and production-grade reality for customers. You will function as an "innovator-builder," working directly within customers’ environments to move data and machine learning workloads from idea to production on Google Cloud, leveraging experience with programming languages (e.g. PySpark, SQL, Python) and the data cloud ecosystem (e.g. BigQuery, Managed Spark, Spanner, AlloyDB). You will build the data foundations that agents depend on, and train and evaluate machine learning models on customer data. By embedding with strategic accounts, you serve a dual purpose: providing "white glove" deployment of complex systems and acting as a critical feedback loop, transforming real-world field insights into Google Cloud’s future product roadmap.

It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production data and machine learning workloads with customers, writing, testing, and performance-tuning PySpark, SQL and Python on BigQuery, Managed Spark, Spanner and AlloyDB.
• Present working proofs with customers’ data, including de-identifying sensitive data (e.g., PCI, PHI).
• Build the data foundation for agentic solutions, including lakehouse architectures, metadata, semantic context, and the access controls that let custom agents act on trusted data.
• Train, evaluate and deploy machine learning and agentic components where they improve the customer’s business metric, with evaluation and monitoring in place.
• Refactor and migrate high-cost analytics, Spark and operational database workloads from other platforms onto Google Cloud engines, with measured price-performance results.

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