GenAI Forward-Deployed Engineer — Lead & Scale

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC's YouTube AI Accelerator team seeks a senior technical leader to drive AI transformation across Go-To-Market operations. You will deliver GenAI proofs of concept, lead multi-agent systems and MCP servers, and partner with product and business teams to shape roadmaps and production deployments.

You'll design, implement, and maintain scalable AI systems, ensure data readiness and compliance, and optimize latency while maintaining security and quality across enterprise-scale platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience in software development.
• 9 years of experience building APIs or web applications, designing scalable microservice or system architectures, including backend data pipelines, distributed systems, and data privacy.
• 8 years of experience in full-stack development using one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++, or TypeScript) with practical experience building enterprise-grade applied AI solutions.
• 4 years of experience working with teams and business stakeholders to create product roadmaps.
• 4 years of experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

• Build GenAI PoCs (LLMs, RAG, agentic frameworks) to demonstrate feasibility to stakeholders, translating ambiguous business problems into software solutions.
• Serve as engineering Lead delivering complex AI applications, transitioning rapid prototypes to production-grade systems (e.g., multi-agent systems, MCP servers) that drive Return on Investment (ROI).
• Act as a trusted engineering partner to product managements and stakeholders, co-creating tool roadmaps that enable YouTube's business operations.
• Author technical designs, write clean/maintainable code, build front-ends, and deliver from scoping to deployment.
• Build high-performance eval pipelines and observability frameworks to resolve AI bottlenecks (data readiness, system integration, state-management) while ensuring accuracy, safety, compliance, and latency.

Skills

API design and backend systems

Full-stack development

Leadership / Engineering management

Roadmapping with stakeholders

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/Math or related field

Master’s degree or PhD in AI/CS or related field

Job description

Google LLC's YouTube AI Accelerator team seeks a senior technical leader to drive AI transformation across Go-To-Market operations. You will deliver GenAI proofs of concept, lead multi-agent systems and MCP servers, and partner with product and business teams to shape roadmaps and production deployments.

You'll design, implement, and maintain scalable AI systems, ensure data readiness and compliance, and optimize latency while maintaining security and quality across enterprise-scale platforms.