Remote GenAI Delivery Engineer — Higher Ed & Public Sector

Nelnet; Columbus (NE); Remote; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K + student loan repayment

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Nelnet is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge GenAI delivery between the client and Nelnet’s engineering teams. The role focuses on scoping, backlog creation, and translating requirements into concrete delivery plans while ensuring compliance and risk management.

The candidate will partner with an Engagement Manager and work with Google Cloud-based Gemini Enterprise tools in higher education and SLED settings, prioritizing client value and technical feasibility.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience scoping and delivering GenAI/agentic AI solutions for enterprise or institutional clients.
• Familiarity with cloud data, compute, and compliance concepts used in AI solution design.
• Google Cloud certification preferred or equivalent technical certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with client stakeholders to define scoped delivery use cases.
• Build and maintain the delivery backlog and translate requirements into sequenced work.
• Validate delivered solutions against acceptance criteria and govern risk and compliance.

Skills

GenAI delivery

Client discovery

Backlog scoping

Cross-functional collaboration

GCP/Gemini platform

Tools

Gemini Enterprise Platform

Google Cloud

Job description

Nelnet is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge GenAI delivery between the client and Nelnet’s engineering teams. The role focuses on scoping, backlog creation, and translating requirements into concrete delivery plans while ensuring compliance and risk management.

The candidate will partner with an Engagement Manager and work with Google Cloud-based Gemini Enterprise tools in higher education and SLED settings, prioritizing client value and technical feasibility.