Forward-Deployed GenAI Partner Engineer

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team, embedding with strategic partners to architect and deploy production-grade GenAI applications. You will be the technical bridge during launches and critical issues, shaping evaluations and signals for modeling teams.

Ideal candidates have strong software development experience, ML/LLM familiarity, and proven ability to work across global time zones with external partners, delivering high-impact technical outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development and coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with Machine Learning systems or Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience in a customer-facing role, managing client relationships or external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic partners, own the technical relationship with top strategic partners, helping them architect, optimize, and build production-grade GenAI applications.
• Drive joint evaluations and benchmarking, build and run systematic evals on partner-specific datasets to deliver high-fidelity performance signals directly to modeling teams.
• Optimize GenAI workloads, guide partners on advanced implementation techniques, including prompt engineering and RAG architectures.
• Author high-visibility case studies, developer blogs, and reference implementations to showcase Gemini's production capabilities.
• Build feedback loop tooling, collaborate with product engineering to develop tooling that surfaces developer feedback patterns at scale.

Skills

Software development

Python/JavaScript/TypeScript

Testing/launching software

ML/LLMs

Customer-facing experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google DeepMind is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team, embedding with strategic partners to architect and deploy production-grade GenAI applications. You will be the technical bridge during launches and critical issues, shaping evaluations and signals for modeling teams.

Ideal candidates have strong software development experience, ML/LLM familiarity, and proven ability to work across global time zones with external partners, delivering high-impact technical outcomes.