GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer IV — Cloud AI Deployment Leader

Google Inc.; San Diego, Seattle (CA, WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Sick Time

Maternity Leave

Baby Bonding Leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge frontier AI products and production-grade realities within customer environments. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke AI solutions in situ, collaborating with executive stakeholders to define infrastructure requirements and seamless integration with client workflows.

You will embed with strategic accounts, enabling white-glove deployments while feeding field insights back into product roadmaps, focusing on GenMedia and multimodal

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 to external or internal customers 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 connect tissue between Google’s AI products and customer 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 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 product feature requests for 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

Python

C++

TypeScript

AI systems

Cloud architecture

Executive stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master’s or PhD in CS/AI/Graphics

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Vertex AI

Gemini models

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge frontier AI products and production-grade realities within customer environments. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke AI solutions in situ, collaborating with executive stakeholders to define infrastructure requirements and seamless integration with client workflows.

You will embed with strategic accounts, enabling white-glove deployments while feeding field insights back into product roadmaps, focusing on GenMedia and multimodal