Applied AI FDE: Google Cloud Equity

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Job summary

Google is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer IV in Applied AI within Google Cloud. You will lead the end-to-end engineering lifecycle for conversational AI pilots, turning rapid prototypes into production-grade solutions and partnering with enterprise customers at their sites.

This high-travel role emphasizes AI, cloud, and secure deployments across client environments. You will work with DeepMind minds and Google’s Vertex AI portfolio, driving customer success and delivering scalable AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development using Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience deploying resources via Terraform or similar tools to automate the setup of agents, functions, or networking.
• Experience building full-stack applications that interact with enterprise IT infrastructures and developing external customer projects.
• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform (GCP)).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead developer for conversational AI and customer experience applications, transitioning from rapid prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows (e.g., multi-agent systems, model context protocol (MCP) servers) that drive measurable return on investment.
• Architect and code conversational flows that are functional, and optimized for the connective tissue between Google’s conversational AI products and customers’ live infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data silos, and security perimeters.
• Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to optimize agentic workloads, focusing on reasoning loops, tool selection, and reducing latency while maintaining production-grade security and networking.
• Identify repeatable field patterns and technical friction points in Google’s Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) stack, converting them into reusable modules or product feature requests for Engineering teams.
• Co-build with customer engineering teams to instill Google-grade development best practices, ensuring project success and end-user adoption.

Skills

Python

Terraform

Full-stack development

Cloud AI architecture

AI systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Master's or PhD in AI/CS (preferred)

Tools

Job description

Google is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer IV in Applied AI within Google Cloud. You will lead the end-to-end engineering lifecycle for conversational AI pilots, turning rapid prototypes into production-grade solutions and partnering with enterprise customers at their sites.

This high-travel role emphasizes AI, cloud, and secure deployments across client environments. You will work with DeepMind minds and Google’s Vertex AI portfolio, driving customer success and delivering scalable AI