GenAI Forward-Deployed Engineering Lead (Cloud AI)

Google India; Singapore; On-site; SGD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering to lead a squad of AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production deployments in customer environments. You will mentor 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, 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, forward deployed engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
• Experience developing AI/GenAI (GenAI) solutions utilizing AI tools and designing multi-agent workflows and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the ultimate 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 to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for forward deployed engineering, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an engineering squad.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech, 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 road maps, building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Skills

AI/GenAI leadership

Cloud computing

Team management

Technical customer-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering to lead a squad of AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production deployments in customer environments. You will mentor 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