Applied AI Engineering Manager — Lead AI Agents

Google LLC; Kirkland, Sunnyvale (WA, CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Applied AI, leading cross-team development of agentic AI solutions and overseeing multiple engineering teams across locations.

You will drive technical strategy, design secure, scalable AI agents, and hire top talent while collaborating with account teams to deliver high-impact customer engagements. Strong leadership and cloud experience are required.

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.
• Experience in Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience developing and deploying agentic solutions utilizing tools, multi-agent workflows and RAG systems.
• Experience managing customer projects, and in resource management.
• Experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate development 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 Agent Development, evaluating AI Agent expertise, systems development, and coding skills to build an exceptional development 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 development to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Skills

Python

Agentic systems

Multi-agent workflows

RAG systems

People management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Tool-calling protocols

ReAct patterns

Job description

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Applied AI, leading cross-team development of agentic AI solutions and overseeing multiple engineering teams across locations.

You will drive technical strategy, design secure, scalable AI agents, and hire top talent while collaborating with account teams to deliver high-impact customer engagements. Strong leadership and cloud experience are required.