Customer Solutions Engineer, Compute, Google Cloud

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 144,000; 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 leave

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking Solutions Engineers for AI Infrastructure to own complex customer issues and provide specialized support across teams. You will troubleshoot hardware and software problems, diagnose AI/ML workloads, and help resolve deployment obstacles to ensure successful AI deployments.

You will work with AI hardware, software stacks, and documentation updates, while collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to drive improvements and deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience reading and debugging code in languages such as Java, C, C++, Python, Go or JavaScript, and in virtualization and orchestration frameworks.
• Experience triaging technical issues across the stack (hardware, software, networking, virtualization, kernel drivers, firmware, performance).
• System administrator level experience with Linux/Unix and debugging on enterprise-grade server infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve customer issues on AI/ML infrastructure.
• Understand AI/ML workloads and underlying hardware architecture; build tools for faster diagnosis.
• Advise internal stakeholders to resolve deployment and operational obstacles.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve the product and tools with SRE involvement.
• Be available for non-standard work hours including weekends as needed.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Customer focus

Cross-team collaboration

Code debugging

Linux/Unix administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Go/Python

Job description

This role requires you to work in a shift pattern or non‑standard work hours as required. This may include weekend work.

In most instances, this position requires in‑person interviews as part of the hiring process.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short‑Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28‑30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in reading/debugging code written in a general purpose coding language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python, Shell, Go or JavaScript, etc.) and in virtualization and orchestration frameworks.
• Experience troubleshooting and advocating for customer needs, and triaging technical issues across the stack (e.g., hardware faults, low-level software, networking, virtualization, kernel drivers, firmware, performance).
• System administrator level experience with Linux/Unix systems and experience in debugging issues across the hardware/software boundary on enterprise‑grade server infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with large‑scale distributed systems, and familiarity with common solutions, design patterns, or best practices.
• Experience working directly with AI/ML computing hardware, including GPUs or other accelerators.
• Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), and understanding of the AI/ML training and inference lifecycle.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes or Slurm in an on‑prem or cloud environment.

About The Job

Our Solutions Engineers for AI Infrastructure own complex customer issues and provide specialized support to other teams. In this role, you will be a part of a global team that provides 24x7 support to ensure customers can seamlessly deploy their AI and ML workloads on AI Infrastructure products. When customers encounter deep technical issues, your job is to ensure we have the expertise, tools, and processes to resolve the issue. You will troubleshoot technical problems with a mix of hardware and software debugging, networking, Linux system administration, coding/scripting, and updating documentation. You will help our customer’s success in the AI/ML space by making improvements to the product, internal tools, processes, and documentation. You'll help drive business growth by recognizing and advocating for our customers’ challenges related to AI deployments.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise‑grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting‑edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

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

US: $102000 - $144000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Manage customers' problems through effective diagnosis, resolution, or implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity for customer issues on AI/ML infrastructure.
• Develop an in‑depth understanding of AI/ML workloads and underlying hardware architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, determining the root cause for customer reported issues, and building tools for faster diagnosis.
• Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in Engineering, Sales, and customer organizations to resolve complex deployment and operational obstacles in AI infrastructure environments.
• Work closely with multiple Product and Engineering teams to find ways to improve the product, and interact with our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to drive high‑quality production.
• Be available for non‑standard work hours or shifts which may include weekends as needed.

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 .