Forward Deployed AI Engineer — Federal Sector (Onsite)

Google LLC; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google Public Sector is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy production‑grade, secure AI solutions across Federal and SLED environments. You will co‑build agentic workflows with customers, addressing integration, data sovereignty, and security challenges within strict compliance frameworks.

Our GPS FDE team accelerates safe, reliable adoption of generative AI while supplying field insights back to Google Cloud Product engineering for enterprise-scale analytics and mission‑critical

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 architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (e.g. Google Cloud Platform (GCP)).
• Experience building pipelines for structured and unstructured data using both vector databases and RAG-like architectures to power enterprise AI solutions.
• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with customers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a developer for complex AI applications, transitioning from rapid prototypes to production‑grade agentic workflows (e.g., multi‑agent systems, MCP servers).
• Architect and code the connective tissue between Google’s AI products and customer’s live infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data silos, and security perimeters as part of an expert team.
• Build high‑performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to ensure agentic systems meet rigorous requirements for accuracy, safety, and latency.
• Identify repeatable field patterns and friction points in Google’s AI stack, converting them into reusable modules or formal product feature requests for the Engineering teams.
• Co‑build with Customer Engineering teams to instill Google‑grade development best practices, ensuring long‑term project success and high end‑user adoption.

Skills

Python

AI systems on cloud platforms

Customer discovery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master’s degree or PhD in AI/CS or related field

Tools

Vertex AI Pipelines

Kubeflow

MLflow

BigQuery

Job description

Google Public Sector is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy production‑grade, secure AI solutions across Federal and SLED environments. You will co‑build agentic workflows with customers, addressing integration, data sovereignty, and security challenges within strict compliance frameworks.

Our GPS FDE team accelerates safe, reliable adoption of generative AI while supplying field insights back to Google Cloud Product engineering for enterprise-scale analytics and mission‑critical