Higher Education AI Cloud Solutions Engineer

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Public Sector seeks a Customer Engineer in California to partner with technical Sales teams, differentiating Google Cloud offerings for higher education customers. You will design agentic AI solutions and guide PoC efforts across educational institutions, translating academic requirements into practical architectures within the Google Cloud ecosystem.

You will lead engagements with education leaders, showcasing AI-first capabilities and secure data infrastructures while coordinating with

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

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud infrastructure experience

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google Public Sector seeks a Customer Engineer in California to partner with technical Sales teams, differentiating Google Cloud offerings for higher education customers. You will design agentic AI solutions and guide PoC efforts across educational institutions, translating academic requirements into practical architectures within the Google Cloud ecosystem.

You will lead engagements with education leaders, showcasing AI-first capabilities and secure data infrastructures while coordinating with