AI Solutions Engineer — Public Sector

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Customer Engineer to collaborate with Sales and serve California’s Higher Education sector, delivering AI-first, agentic solutions on Google Cloud. You will lead PoCs, design architectures, and guide education customers through complex deployments while showcasing Google’s GenAI capabilities.

You will engage with university leaders, translate academic requirements into practical, scalable cloud architectures, and coordinate cross-functional resources to drive transformative

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud-native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience engaging with and presenting to technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure engineering, on-premise environments, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time to university campuses, industry conferences, and related events as required to advocate Google Public Sector's goals and engage directly with educational leaders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Sales team to uncover and qualify Google Cloud and AI-first opportunities, proactively addressing technical objections around adoption, and developing pathways to clear technical blockers.
• Lead the technical relationship with our premier Higher Education customers in California, leading immersive product briefings on Google Cloud and Google's GenAI portfolio, driving innovative, agentic proof-of-concept (PoC) work, and orchestrating specialized technical resources across Google Public Sector.
• Demonstrate and rapidly prototype intelligent integrations, bringing autonomous agents and AI-powered workflows to life directly within complex customer and partner environments.
• Design and recommend AI-optimized enterprise architectures and integration strategies, laying the secure platform and data infrastructure foundations required to successfully deploy comprehensive, forward-looking solutions using Google Cloud best practices.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud infrastructure engineering

Travel readiness

Executive presentation

AI/GenAI concepts

Public Sector experience

Autonomous AI/workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is seeking a Customer Engineer to collaborate with Sales and serve California’s Higher Education sector, delivering AI-first, agentic solutions on Google Cloud. You will lead PoCs, design architectures, and guide education customers through complex deployments while showcasing Google’s GenAI capabilities.

You will engage with university leaders, translate academic requirements into practical, scalable cloud architectures, and coordinate cross-functional resources to drive transformative