Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Applied AI, Google Cloud

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Singapore seeks a Manager for Applied AI Forward Deployed Engineering to lead AI/ML engineers bridging frontier AI and production-grade solutions within customer environments. You’ll mentor the team, align with Product and Sales leadership, and drive state-management and data readiness across complex deployments.

You’ll shape roadmaps, resolve production obstacles, and contribute to enterprise-grade maturity while collaborating with Google Cloud leaders and DeepMind minds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years in cloud computing or a technical customer-facing role.
• Experience in Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience developing and deploying agentic solutions with multi-agent workflows and RAG systems.
• Experience with customer projects and resource management.
• Master’s degree or PhD in AI, CS, or related field preferred.
• 2 years managing a software engineering or similar technical customer-facing team in cloud.
• Experience designing secure, observable multi-agent systems with patterns like ReAct, state management, tool-calling.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead, set code standards and architecture across the team.
• Define requirements with Sales and Tech Leadership for high-value opportunities.
• Lead technical hiring for Applied AI FDE and build an exceptional team.
• Identify gaps in emerging tech (MCP, tool-calling, foundation models).
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to remove blockers and build internal tools.

Skills

Python

Cloud computing

Multi-agent systems

Agentic solutions

Customer-facing

Resource management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or CS or related field

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Tool-calling protocols

Foundation models

MCP (Mobility/Cloud stack)

Job description

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

• 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.
  
• Experience in Python or similar coding languages.
  
• Experience developing and deploying agentic solutions utilizing tools, multi-agent workflows and RAG systems.
  
• Experience with customer projects and resource management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
  
• 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 the Manager of an Applied AI 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. 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 (Agentic systems in Customer Experience) to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for Applied AI FDE, evaluating AI Agent expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (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 while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

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