GenAI Forward-Deployed Engineer for Cloud AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days/year

Sick Time: 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google Cloud is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge frontier AI products with production-grade client deployments. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke AI solutions inside customer environments, coordinating with strategic accounts and ensuring data readiness and secure state management.

The GenMedia focus embeds multimodal models into production workflows, enabling white-glove deployment and direct customer impact.

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 development

Python

C++

TypeScript

Leadership

GenMedia

Data governance

GDPR compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/Graphics

Job description

Google Cloud is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge frontier AI products with production-grade client deployments. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke AI solutions inside customer environments, coordinating with strategic accounts and ensuring data readiness and secure state management.

The GenMedia focus embeds multimodal models into production workflows, enabling white-glove deployment and direct customer impact.