Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, AI, Google Cloud

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering team in Singapore. You will lead AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade implementations within customer environments.

You will provide deep technical mentorship while aligning with Product, Engineering, and regional leadership to unblock production challenges and drive enterprise-grade AI maturity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or CS or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in cloud computing or a technical 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 similar coding languages.
• 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 and architectural benchmarks.
• Partner with Sales and Tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities.
• Lead technical hiring for forward deployed engineering, evaluating AI/ML expertise and systems engineering.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech to maintain subject matter expertise in AI stack.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps.

Skills

Cloud computing experience

Customer-facing experience

Python programming

AI/GenAI solutions

Multi-agent workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS or related field

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Python

Vertex AI

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Job description

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in cloud computing or a technical 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 similar coding languages.
• Experience developing AI/GenAI solutions utilizing AI tools, or designing multi-agent workflows or RAG systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in industry agentic transformation.
• Experience designing end-to-end secure, observable multi-agent systems using complex design patterns (e.g., ReAct, self-reflection), state management, and tool-calling protocols.
• Experience designing intuitive interfaces for complex AI and agentic systems, prioritizing context engineering, transparency, and explainability to foster user trust.
• Experience architecting AI solutions within complex infrastructures, ensuring data sovereignty and secure governance.
• Experience performing discovery interviews to identify business problems and translate complex hardware/AI constraints for C-suites and technical teams.

About The Job

As a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, you will lead AI/ML engineers who bridge the gap between frontier AI products and production-grade reality within customers. You are responsible for a team that doesn't just consult, but codes, debugs and jointly deploys bespoke agentic solutions directly within customer environments.

In this role, you will provide deep-dive technical mentorship to your team while balancing high-level strategic alignment with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership. Your mission is to empower and unblock your team as they resolve production-level obstacles, including data readiness issues, integration complexities, and state-management challenges that hinder AI from achieving enterprise-grade maturity.

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

• 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 (MLOps, GenMedia, or Agentic systems) to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for forward deployed engineering, evaluating Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an engineering squad.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (Model Context Protocol (MCP), 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, building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

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