Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI, YouTube GTM Operations

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, GenAI, You Tube GTM Operations

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You Tube Chicago, IL, USA ;
San Bruno, CA, USA ; +4 more ; +3 more

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Chicago, IL, USA;
San Bruno, CA, USA;
Mountain View, CA, USA;
New York, NY, USA;
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience in software development.
• 6 years of experience in full-stack software development and system design.
• Experience with back-end languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go or C++) and building applied AI solutions/agentic workflows around pre-trained models.
• Experience working with database technologies (e.g., SQL, No
  
  SQL), distributed systems, and designing back-end data pipelines.

• 2 years of experience as a Technical Lead or Engineering Manager, including zero-to-one delivery and scoping in ambiguous environments.
• 2 years of experience with Site Reliability Engineering, Information Security, or Developer Operation practices, with practical enterprise AI experience (LLM evals, observability, safety).
• Experience building advanced GenAI (multi-step LLM, multi-agent systems, or MCP integrated with orchestration frameworks).
• Experience with AI data infrastructure: vector databases, embedding generation, search architectures, and state-management challenges.
• Experience integrating tools with enterprise business systems and CRMs.
• Knowledge of GTM/sales workflows.

It's an exciting time to join GTMO's AI Accelerator team, devising the AI transformation for You Tube Business GTM operations. The AI Accelerator is driving AI transformation across the organization. Our mission is to operate as a high-velocity, horizontal transformation engine, partnering directly with You Tube Business GTM business domains to fundamentally redesign legacy workflows from scratch and leverage applied AI to drive direct business impact for You Tube.

We operate at the intersection of consulting, product strategy, applied AI and systems engineering. We identify the most painful operational bottlenecks across the organization and rapidly deploy intelligent, enterprise-grade AI powered solutions to solve them.

As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) within the You Tube Business organization, you are an entrepreneurial, full-stack builder tasked with influencing the future of You Tube’s Go-To-Market (GTM) operations. Operating as a builder-consultant, you will bridge the critical gap between frontier AI capabilities and production-grade reality. You will actively code, debug, and ship AI powered and agentic solutions that solve complex business problems.

You will deliver scalable solutions that seamlessly connect intuitive frontend user experiences with complex backends and data pipelines. By integrating next-generation AI (LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows) into GTM operations, you will systematically address the core blockers to enterprise AI maturity, such as integration complexities, data readiness issues, and state-management challenges. If being at the intersection of…