As a Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Google Cloud, you will be an embedded builder who bridges the gap between frontier AI products and production-grade reality within customer environments. You will function as an innovator-builder, moving beyond high-level architecture to code, debug, and jointly ship bespoke agentic solutions directly within the customer’s environment. You will address blockers to production, including solving the integration complexities, data readiness issues, and state-management issues that prevent AI from reaching enterprise-grade maturity and by embedding with accounts, you will serve a dual purpose, providing white-glove deployment of AI systems and acting as a critical feedback loop, transforming real-world field insights into Google Cloud’s future product roadmap.
It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.
Salary blurb for US Applicants:
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $102,000-$145,000 + 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.
Salary blurb for Canada Applicants:
The Canada base salary range for this full-time position is CAD 114,000-117,000 + 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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a developer for AI applications, transitioning from rapid prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows (e.g., multi-agent systems, model context protocol (MCP) servers) that drive measurable return on investment.
- Architect and engineer the "connective tissue" linking Google’s AI products to customers' 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 recurring field patterns and friction points across Google’s AI stack, converting them into reusable modules or formal product feature requests for the Engineering teams.
- Collaborate with customer engineering teams to instill Google-grade development best practices, ensuring long-term project success and high end-user adoption.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building and shipping production-grade AI-driven solutions to external or internal customers using Python, Typescript or comparable languages.
- Experience in applied AI, with a focus on building systems around pretrained models (e.g., prompt engineering, fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), orchestrating model interactions with external tools to deliver solutions).
- Experience architecting, deploying, or managing solutions on a Cloud Platform (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience implementing multi-agent systems using frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, or Google’s ADK) and patterns like ReAct, self-reflection, and hierarchical delegation.
- Knowledge of "LLM-native" metrics (e.g., tokens/sec, cost-per-request) and techniques for optimizing state management and granular tracing.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
San Francisco, CA, USA; Calgary, AB, Canada; Montreal, QC, Canada; Ottawa, ON, Canada; Toronto, ON, Canada; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Waterloo, ON, Canada; Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Detroit, MI, USA; Houston, TX, USA; Irvine, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Miami, FL, USA; Madison, WI, USA; New York, NY, USA; Portland, OR, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Diego, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.
For Canada Applicants: This posting is for a new vacancy
For US Applicants:
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.
Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
The application window will be open until at least May 31, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.