Public Sector Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

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

Job summary

Google Public Sector is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to embed with public sector customers, turning rapid AI prototypes into production-grade solutions within customer environments.

Role focuses on connecting Google's AI products to live infrastructures, solving data, security, and integration challenges, while working closely with customer engineering teams to ship bespoke systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and shipping production-grade AI-driven solutions to external or internal customers using Python, TypeScript or comparable languages.
• Experience building scalable pipelines for structured, unstructured data, incorporating vector databases and RAG-like architectures to power 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 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.
• 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

AI systems design

Python/TypeScript

Cloud architectures

Executive stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's or PhD in AI/CS

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

ADK

Vertex AI Pipelines

Kubeflow

MLflow

Job description

Google Public Sector is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to embed with public sector customers, turning rapid AI prototypes into production-grade solutions within customer environments.

Role focuses on connecting Google's AI products to live infrastructures, solving data, security, and integration challenges, while working closely with customer engineering teams to ship bespoke systems.