Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Google; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick leave

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Applied AI to lead the end-to-end delivery of conversational AI pilots for our largest customers. You will transform rapid prototypes into production-ready solutions and own the lifecycle from concept to scalable, secure AI systems at customer sites.

This high-travel role requires software engineering, ML operations, and cloud infrastructure expertise to drive customer success and measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development using Python or similar coding languages.
• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (e.g., GCP).
• Experience deploying resources via Terraform or similar tools to automate the setup of agents, functions, or networking.
• Experience building full-stack applications that interact with enterprise IT infrastructures and developing external customer projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead developer for conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and customer experience (CX) applications, transitioning from rapid prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows.
• Architect and code conversational flows that are optimized for the connection between Google’s Conversational AI products and customers’ live infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data silos, and security perimeters.
• Build high-performance evaluation (Eval) pipelines and observability frameworks to optimize agentic workloads, focusing on reasoning loops, tool selection, and reducing latency while maintaining production-grade security and networking.
• Identify repeatable field patterns and technical 'friction points' in Google’s AAI stack, converting them into reusable modules or product feature requests for 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

AI systems on cloud platforms (GCP)

Terraform

Full-stack applications integration

Enterprise IT integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master’s degree or PhD in AI/CS or related technical field

Tools

Terraform

GCP

ReAct

Job description

Google is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Applied AI to lead the end-to-end delivery of conversational AI pilots for our largest customers. You will transform rapid prototypes into production-ready solutions and own the lifecycle from concept to scalable, secure AI systems at customer sites.

This high-travel role requires software engineering, ML operations, and cloud infrastructure expertise to drive customer success and measurable business value.