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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Data and AI
Google, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Data and AI
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Location Options Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in a customer‑facing technical role (e.g., Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer) leading technical engagements.
5 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical consulting, including experience writing production‑level code in one or more programming languages.
1 year of experience with Generative AI techniques (e.g., large language models, multi‑modal, large vision models) or with Generative AI‑related concepts (e.g., language modeling, computer vision).
Preferred qualifications
5 years of experience designing and deploying cloud‑native distributed systems, data pipelines, or AI/ML workflows in an enterprise environment.
3 years of experience with SQL and modern data warehousing concepts.
1 year of experience in prompt development, model evaluation, and the creative application of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
About The Job The Forward Deployed Engineering Team is a specialized product incubation engine dedicated to accelerating product market fit for our unified data cloud and AI capabilities. Tasked with bridging the gap between our powerful platform primitives and the cohesive, high‑value solutions enterprises demand, this group operates as a "customer‑zero" laboratory. Composed of expert builders and strategic product leaders, the team operates on a "Co‑Invest, Build, Codify" flywheel: embed deeply with a select group of lighthouse customers, co‑develop breakthrough solutions in real‑world environments, and translate these engagements into scalable assets—delivering validated product prototypes to engineering and repeatable go‑to‑market blueprints to the field.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you contribute to Google’s data and generative AI to solve real‑world challenges for our most strategic customers. You will act as a partner in tandem with key customers, working directly to build, deploy, and optimize sophisticated Data and AI agents and solutions leveraging Google’s first‑class technologies. You will bridge the gap between our core product engineering teams and complex customer needs, directly accelerate product innovation, customer success, disrupt the traditional SDLC, and shape the future of our Data and AI products.
Responsibilities
Contribute to technical architecture for incubation projects. Work to stitch Google’s AI primitives (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Gemini) into high‑value solutions like agentic workflows and semantic data layers.
Support the resolution of ambiguous hurdles that prevent adoption. Debug integration issues, optimize inference latency, and architect security layers to turn "demos" into production‑ready assets.
Drive the "codify" phase by transforming bespoke solutions into reusable assets. Author "Golden Path" code repositories and reference architectures to enable the broader ecosystem to scale your work.
Serve as the technical source of truth for core engineering. Document API friction and feature gaps to directly influence the roadmaps of BigQuery, Vertex, and Looker.
Partner with customer Chief Technology Officers and Chief Data Officers to validate technical feasibility and align our proposed architectures with their existing enterprise stacks.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Project Management, Consulting, and Engineering
Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Data and AI
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Location Options Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in a customer‑facing technical role (e.g., Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer) leading technical engagements.
5 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical consulting, including experience writing production‑level code in one or more programming languages.
1 year of experience with Generative AI techniques (e.g., large language models, multi‑modal, large vision models) or with Generative AI‑related concepts (e.g., language modeling, computer vision).
Preferred qualifications
5 years of experience designing and deploying cloud‑native distributed systems, data pipelines, or AI/ML workflows in an enterprise environment.
3 years of experience with SQL and modern data warehousing concepts.
1 year of experience in prompt development, model evaluation, and the creative application of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
About The Job The Forward Deployed Engineering Team is a specialized product incubation engine dedicated to accelerating product market fit for our unified data cloud and AI capabilities. Tasked with bridging the gap between our powerful platform primitives and the cohesive, high‑value solutions enterprises demand, this group operates as a "customer‑zero" laboratory. Composed of expert builders and strategic product leaders, the team operates on a "Co‑Invest, Build, Codify" flywheel: embed deeply with a select group of lighthouse customers, co‑develop breakthrough solutions in real‑world environments, and translate these engagements into scalable assets—delivering validated product prototypes to engineering and repeatable go‑to‑market blueprints to the field.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you contribute to Google’s data and generative AI to solve real‑world challenges for our most strategic customers. You will act as a partner in tandem with key customers, working directly to build, deploy, and optimize sophisticated Data and AI agents and solutions leveraging Google’s first‑class technologies. You will bridge the gap between our core product engineering teams and complex customer needs, directly accelerate product innovation, customer success, disrupt the traditional SDLC, and shape the future of our Data and AI products.
Responsibilities
Contribute to technical architecture for incubation projects. Work to stitch Google’s AI primitives (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Gemini) into high‑value solutions like agentic workflows and semantic data layers.
Support the resolution of ambiguous hurdles that prevent adoption. Debug integration issues, optimize inference latency, and architect security layers to turn "demos" into production‑ready assets.
Drive the "codify" phase by transforming bespoke solutions into reusable assets. Author "Golden Path" code repositories and reference architectures to enable the broader ecosystem to scale your work.
Serve as the technical source of truth for core engineering. Document API friction and feature gaps to directly influence the roadmaps of BigQuery, Vertex, and Looker.
Partner with customer Chief Technology Officers and Chief Data Officers to validate technical feasibility and align our proposed architectures with their existing enterprise stacks.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Project Management, Consulting, and Engineering
Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet
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