Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Applied AI, Cloud

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 June 7, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

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.

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

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
San Francisco, CA, USA;
Atlanta, GA, USA;
Austin, TX, USA;
Boulder, CO, USA;
Cambridge, MA, USA;
Chicago, IL, USA;
Addison, TX, USA;
Detroit, MI, USA;
Irvine, CA, USA;
Kirkland, WA, USA;
Los Angeles, CA, USA;
Miami, FL, USA;
New York, NY, USA;
Portland, OR, USA;
Reston, VA, USA;
San Diego, CA, USA;
Seattle, WA, USA;
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Washington D.C., DC, USA;
Ann Arbor, MI, USA;
Houston, TX, USA;
Madison, WI, USA;
Pittsburgh, PA, USA;
Raleigh, NC, USA;
Durham, NC, USA
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• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development using Python or similar coding languages.
• 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.
• Experience architecting AI systems on cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).

• Master’s degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience implementing multi-agent systems using frameworks like ReAct and self-reflection.
• Experience debugging agent logic and optimizing tool selection, including tracing conversation identifications (IDs) across microservices to identify and resolve failures in real-time.
• Experience connecting agents to enterprise knowledge bases and optimizing retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) chunking to prevent hallucinations.
• Track record of troubleshooting live, high-traffic systems during critical windows.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in Applied AI, you will be the Agent Engineer and the primary driver for our customers' most critical AI initiatives. You will take initial conversational prototypes and transform them into production-ready solutions, owning the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, including the transition from art of the possible to real-world business value and scalable, secure AI systems. This is a high-travel, role focused on leading technical delivery for conversational AI pilots and establishing the first customer user journeys (CUJs) for our largest customers at their sites.

You will have an understanding of software engineering, Machine Learning operations, and cloud infrastructure.

It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

• Serve as the lead developer for conversational AI…