GenAI Forward-Deployed Engineer: Cloud & Media

Google; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; 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 time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge frontier AI products with production-grade solutions at customer sites. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke AI workflows, embedding GenMedia models into client environments with a founder mentality and high agency.

You will collaborate with strategic accounts to unblock production blockers, manage data readiness, and help shape Google Cloud’s future product roadmap across the GenMedia space.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and shipping production-grade AI-driven or software solutions using Python, C++, TypeScript, or comparable languages.
• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with executive stakeholders and engineering teams to define AI, media, and hardware infrastructure requirements.
• Experience architecting and building scalable solutions with generative media models and embedding them into cloud platforms, production workflows, creative software suites, or pipelines.
• Experience architecting AI solutions that ensure data sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and secure model governance/studio standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop complex AI applications, transitioning from prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows.
• Architect the 'connective tissue' between Google’s AI products and customer's live infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data, and security perimeters.
• Build production-grade integrations, developer SDKs, and custom middleware that wire Google’s AI media models directly into industry-standard creative suites and secure studio environments.
• Identify repeatable 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

AI software development

Stakeholder discovery

Generative media models

Data governance & GDPR

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Master’s or PhD in CS/AI/Graphics (preferred)

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge frontier AI products with production-grade solutions at customer sites. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke AI workflows, embedding GenMedia models into client environments with a founder mentality and high agency.

You will collaborate with strategic accounts to unblock production blockers, manage data readiness, and help shape Google Cloud’s future product roadmap across the GenMedia space.