Senior Forward Deployed Developer, Agent Development

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Applied AI Agent Developer in New York. This role involves developing custom conversational AI solutions to address complex customer challenges. Candidates should have extensive experience in testing and launching software products, with a strong background in Generative AI technologies. The position offers a competitive salary range of $207,000-$300,000 plus bonus and equity. You will partner with strategic customers, write bespoke code, and develop tooling while providing technical guidance. Join us at Google to shape the future of AI.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience in developing conversational AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with strategic customers to develop custom AI agents.
• Write bespoke code and develop custom tools for customer solutions.
• Systematize learnings by creating reusable tools and documentation.

Skills

Speech/audio technology

Reinforcement learning

Machine learning infrastructure

Generative AI concepts

Vertex AI

BigQuery

Dialogflow

Custom tooling development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree or PhD in relevant field

Tools

Cloud Storage

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Waterloo, ON, Canada; Toronto, ON, Canada; New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with one or more of the following: speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• Experience with core GenAI concepts (e.g., Large Language Model (LLM), multi-modal, large vision models) and experience with text, image, video, or audio generation.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Dialogflow.
• Experience in prompt development, model evaluation, and the creative application of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Ability to be flexible and resilient in dynamic environments where priorities often shift and to take ownership and respond to urgent business or customer issues.

About The Job

Google's software developers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for developers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software developer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our developers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

As a Staff Applied AI Agent Developer, you will be at the forefront of applying Google's Generative AI to solve real-world challenges for our most strategic customers. You will act as a specialized software developer embedded with key accounts, working direct to build, deploy, and optimize sophisticated AI agents on our platform. This is a high-impact role that bridges the gap between our core product development teams and complex customer needs, directly accelerating customer success and shaping the future of our AI products.

The Cloud Applied AI (AAI) powers business growth with Gemini Enterprise. Our portfolio includes Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (Shopping Agent, CX Agent Studio, Agent Assist, Vertex AI Search - Commerce, Customer Experience Insights), along with other vertical and domain packaged solutions. We enable high adoption and speed to value by building solutions that are quickly deployed, delivering new 0-to-1 capabilities with startup agility. Team members operate at the forefront of AI, collaborating directly with model builders with unprecedented speed. Join us to work on cutting-edge projects and shape the future of AI in a fast-paced, collaborative, and impactful environment.

For Canada Applicants:

The Canada base salary range for this full‑time position is CAD 216,000-221,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in Canada role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

For United States Applicants:

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $207,000-$300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with select, strategic customers to understand their business challenges. Design, co‑develop, debug, and deploy custom conversational AI agents and solutions to accelerate their time to value.
• Act as a high‑level problem solver, empowered to write bespoke code, develop custom tooling, and even contribute directly to the core product codebase to resolve critical customer issues.
• Systematize your learnings from customer engagements by creating reusable tools, building documentation and accelerators, and establishing best practices that can be used across the organization.
• Serve as a critical feedback loop to our core Product and Development teams. Synthesize insights from the field to influence product strategy, identify feature gaps.
• Act as a subject matter expert, providing technical guidance and best practices to customers on agent improvement, performance tuning, CI/CD pipelines, and production readiness.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.