GenAI Forward-Deployed Engineering Manager

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) to lead AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade solutions within customer environments. You will mentor engineers, drive alignment with Product, Engineering, and regional Sales leadership, and help unblock data readiness, integration, and state-management challenges to deliver enterprise-grade AI.

Join Google Cloud’s GTM team to leverage Gemini models and Vertex AI, with access to DeepMind

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years in cloud computing or technical customer-facing role.
• Experience in people management / team leadership.
• Experience in Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience developing AI/GenAI solutions or designing multi-agent workflows or RAG systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as 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 roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Skills

Python

AI/GenAI

Multi-agent workflows

RAG systems

People leadership

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Manager of GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) to lead AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products with production-grade solutions within customer environments. You will mentor engineers, drive alignment with Product, Engineering, and regional Sales leadership, and help unblock data readiness, integration, and state-management challenges to deliver enterprise-grade AI.

Join Google Cloud’s GTM team to leverage Gemini models and Vertex AI, with access to DeepMind