AI Outcome Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking an AI Outcome Customer Engineer within the GTM AI Tech organization. You will act as an enterprise architect, technical debugger, engineering liaison and delivery manager to bridge pre-sales and post-sales work.

You will ensure solutions are shaped for adoption, rapid activation, and viable delivery within our AI portfolio and Vertex AI platform. Join us to influence architectural decisions, collaborate with DeepMind minds, and lead the technical realization of complex AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with technical delivery strategies and interfacing with product or engineering organizations.
• Experience in either system design or reading code (e.g., Java, C++, Python).
• Experience in system design or orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Experience with enterprise integrations (APIs, enterprise content management (ECMs), identity), Cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML model deployments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account teams and practice Customer Engineers during technical evaluation phases to assess project feasibility, shape proposals for long-term adoption, and validate FDE engagement requests.
• Lead upfront technical design for enterprise-grade AI solutions, ensuring seamless and secure integration of models, agents, and connectors into existing customer data pipelines, identity providers, and compliance boundaries.
• Dive into code-level context to diagnose and resolve complex customer implementation issues, identify core product bugs, and test workarounds to clear execution roadblocks.
• Serve as the definitive liaison to core Product and Engineering teams, troubleshooting systemic deployment blockers and translating real-world field feedback into actionable feature requests.
• Steer implementation strategy through technical authority and architectural foresight while owning the technical reality of delivery alongside customer-facing teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Delivery strategy

Code reading

System design

Orchestration

API & identity integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

Vertex AI

Job description

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with technical delivery strategies and interfacing with product or engineering organizations.
• Experience in either system design or reading code (e.g., Java, C++, Python).
• Experience in system design or orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Experience with enterprise integrations (APIs, enterprise content management (ECMs), identity), Cloud infrastructure, or AI/ML model deployments.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience diving deep into novel technical problems, deciphering ambiguity, diagnosing bugs, and emerging with credible architectural solutions.
• Experience orchestrating specialized technical resources to execute complex builds.
• Experience engaging with, presenting to, and influencing technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
• Excellent executive communication skills, capable of translating deep technical integration issues into business impact.

About The Job

As an AI Outcome Customer Engineer in our go-to-market (GTM) AI Tech organization, you will work as an enterprise architect, technical debugger, engineering liaison and technical delivery manager. You will bridge the gap between pre-sales agreement shaping and post-sales execution. Entering the agreement cycle during the technical evaluation phase for strategic AI accounts, you will ensure that solutions are shaped strictly through the lens of adoption, rapid activation, and viable delivery. Aligned with our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization, you will architect how these technical assets actually integrate into the customer's IT ecosystem (connectors, identity, data residency, legal constraints).

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Partner with account teams and practice Customer Engineers (CEs) during technical evaluation phases to assess project feasibility, shape proposals for long-term adoption, and validate FDE engagement requests.
• Lead upfront technical design for enterprise-grade AI solutions, ensuring seamless and secure integration of models, agents, and connectors into existing customer data pipelines, identity providers, and compliance boundaries.
• Dive into code-level context to diagnose and resolve complex customer implementation issues, identify core product bugs, and test workarounds to clear execution roadblocks.
• Serve as the definitive liaison to core Product and Engineering teams, troubleshooting systemic deployment blockers and translating real-world field feedback into actionable feature requests.
• Steer implementation strategy through technical authority and architectural foresight while owning the technical reality of delivery alongside customer-facing teams.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .