Practice Customer Engineer II, Cloud AI, Google Cloud

Google place Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
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In accordance with Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered. 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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

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.

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Irvine, CA, USA;
Seattle, WA, USA;
San Francisco, CA, USA.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with cloud native architecture in industry or a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with machine learning model development and deployment.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Experience with AI agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., Lang Graph, CrewAI, Auto Gen), agentic design patterns (e.g., tool-use, multi-agent collaboration), and integrating large language models into autonomous workflows using advanced API prompting and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience in building machine learning solutions and leveraging specific machine learning architectures (e.g., deep learning, LSTM, convolutional networks).
• Experience with frameworks for deep learning (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow, Jax, Ray, etc.), AI accelerators (e.g., TPUs, GPUs), model architectures (e.g., encoders, decoders, transformers), or using machine learning APIs.
• Ability to learn quickly, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) with a specialty in Cloud AI, you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your expertise in our most strategic product areas, in partnership with Platform CEs, to be direct writing code to developing prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers.

You will solve AI-centered customer issues and provide a critical feedback loop to influence product development.

You will have excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills, engaging with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will blend sales prowess, market knowledge, and direct technical engagement to prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000-$183,000 + 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.

• Drive the technical win for complex workloads within Cloud AI to ensure successful adoption, primarily supporting the business cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.
• Combine sales strategies and direct development and prototyping to provide…