Public Sector Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Public Sector seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer in New York to bridge frontier AI products and production-grade reality within customer environments. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke agentic workflows directly alongside client teams, addressing data readiness, integration complexity, and state-management challenges for enterprise-grade maturity.

The role emphasizes high-agency engineering with ownership of blockers, data sovereignty, and security, delivering white-glove deployment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and shipping production-grade AI-driven solutions using Python, TypeScript, or comparable languages.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines with vector databases and RAG-like architectures for enterprise-grade AI solutions.
• Experience architecting scalable AI systems on cloud platforms.
• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with executive stakeholders (C-suite) and engineering teams to define AI and hardware infrastructure requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a developer for complex AI applications, transitioning from rapid prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows (e.g., multi-agent systems, MCP servers) that drive measurable ROI.
• Architect and code the connective tissue between Google’s AI products and customer's live infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data silos, and security perimeters as part of an expert team.
• Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to ensure agentic systems meet requirements for accuracy, safety and latency.
• Identify repeatable field patterns and friction points in Google’s AI stack, converting them into reusable modules or formal product feature requests for the 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

TypeScript

AI-driven solutions

Cloud architectures

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s or PhD in AI/CS (preferred)

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

Google ADK

Vertex AI Pipelines

Kubeflow

MLflow

BigQuery

Job description

Google Public Sector seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer in New York to bridge frontier AI products and production-grade reality within customer environments. You will code, debug, and ship bespoke agentic workflows directly alongside client teams, addressing data readiness, integration complexity, and state-management challenges for enterprise-grade maturity.

The role emphasizes high-agency engineering with ownership of blockers, data sovereignty, and security, delivering white-glove deployment