Higher Ed Public Sector Cloud AI Engineer

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

Google Public Sector is looking for a Customer Engineer in California to partner with technical Sales and differentiate Google Cloud for Higher Education customers. You will design creative, agentic AI solutions that address complex institutional needs and lead PoCs that demonstrate value.

Leverage your experience to translate academic requirements into visionary, automated architectures, guiding stakeholders and architects across Google Public Sector to accelerate digital transformation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud-native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience engaging with and presenting to technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure engineering, on-premise environments, virtualization, or containerization platforms.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time to university campuses, industry conferences, and related events as required to advocate Google Public Sector's goals and engage directly with educational leaders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Sales team to uncover and qualify Google Cloud and AI-first opportunities, proactively addressing technical objections around adoption, and developing pathways to clear technical blockers.
• Lead the technical relationship with our premier Higher Education customers in California, leading immersive product briefings on Google Cloud and Google's GenAI portfolio, driving innovative, agentic proof-of-concept (PoC) work, and orchestrating specialized technical resources across Google Public Sector.
• Demonstrate and rapidly prototype intelligent integrations, bringing autonomous agents and AI-powered workflows to life directly within complex customer and partner environments.
• Design and recommend AI-optimized enterprise architectures and integration strategies, laying the secure platform and data infrastructure foundations required to successfully deploy comprehensive, forward-looking solutions using Google Cloud best practices.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Executive stakeholder presentation

Cloud infrastructure engineering

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Google Cloud

Job description

Google Public Sector is looking for a Customer Engineer in California to partner with technical Sales and differentiate Google Cloud for Higher Education customers. You will design creative, agentic AI solutions that address complex institutional needs and lead PoCs that demonstrate value.

Leverage your experience to translate academic requirements into visionary, automated architectures, guiding stakeholders and architects across Google Public Sector to accelerate digital transformation.