GenAI FDE Engineering Manager

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering to lead AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade reality inside customer environments.

You will mentor your team while aligning strategy with product, engineering, and Regional Sales leadership, resolving data readiness, integration, and state‑management challenges to enterprise‑grade maturity.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills and education or training.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in cloud computing or a technical customer-facing role.
• 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
• Experience developing AI/GenAI solutions utilizing AI tools, or designing multi-agent workflows or RAG systems.
• Experience in Python or a similar coding language.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.
• Partner with sales and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts (MLOps, GenMedia, or Agentic systems) to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (MCP, tool-calling, and foundation models), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving AI stack.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into road maps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Skills

Python

Cloud computing

Technical customer-facing

AI/GenAI

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Master's/PhD in AI/CS

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering to lead AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade reality inside customer environments.

You will mentor your team while aligning strategy with product, engineering, and Regional Sales leadership, resolving data readiness, integration, and state‑management challenges to enterprise‑grade maturity.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills and education or training.