Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Generative AI, Google Cloud

Google Cloud is leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide, offering advanced AI products including Gemini models and the Vertex AI platform, with direct collaboration opportunities with DeepMind research and engineering teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience as a sales engineer or technical consultant in cloud computing or similar customer-facing roles.
• 2 years managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
• Experience in Python or a similar coding language.
• Experience developing AI/Generative AI solutions utilizing AI tools, or designing multi-agent workflows or RAG systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience designing secure, observable multi-agent systems with complex design patterns such as ReAct and self-reflection.
• Experience designing intuitive interfaces for complex AI and agentic systems emphasizing context engineering, transparency, and explainability.
• Experience architecting AI solutions in complex infrastructures with data sovereignty and secure governance.
• Experience performing discovery interviews to identify business problems and translate hardware/AI constraints for C-suite and technical teams.

• Serve as the technical lead establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks.
• Partner with Sales and Tech Leadership to define requirements and deploy specialized experts to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for FDE focusing on AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging technologies such as model context protocol (MCP), tool-calling, and foundation models.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools.

Google is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, 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. Applicants with disabilities or special needs can request accommodations.