Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, Public Sector

Google Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for Higher Education in the Public Sector to translate rapid AI prototypes into production-grade agentic workflows and partner with customers.

This role will architect connections across Google's AI products and customer live infrastructure, build robust evaluation pipelines, ensure scalability, security, and compliance, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver measurable ROI and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and shipping production-grade AI-driven solutions to external or internal customers using Python, TypeScript or comparable languages.
• Experience building scalable pipelines for structured, unstructured data, incorporating vector databases and RAG-like architectures to power enterprise-grade AI solutions.
• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with executive stakeholders (C-suite) and engineering teams to define AI and hardware infrastructure requirements.
• Experience architecting scalable AI systems on cloud platforms.

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) that drive measurable ROI.
• 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 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.

Job description

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for Higher Education in the Public Sector to translate rapid AI prototypes into production-grade agentic workflows and partner with customers.

This role will architect connections across Google's AI products and customer live infrastructure, build robust evaluation pipelines, ensure scalability, security, and compliance, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver measurable ROI and impact.