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Staff AI Engineer, Strategic Partners, Google Cloud

As a Generative AI (GenAI) Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Google Cloud, you are an embedded builder who bridges the gap between frontier AI products and production-grade reality within partners for our customers. Unlike traditional advi

Company

Google

Location

Sydney NSW, Australia; Melbourne VIC, Australia

Status

Closed

Posted

2026-10-12T12:10:59+00:00

A forward-deployed engineering role at Google Cloud, embedded with strategic AI partners rather than working from an advisory stance. The person codes and debugs alongside a partner's own forward-deployed engineers, taking rapid prototypes to production agentic workflows — multi-agent systems, MCP servers — and builds evaluation and observability pipelines for accuracy, safety and latency. Requires eight years of Python software development, cloud AI architecture, RAG and vector database pipelines, and customer technical discovery. Distinctive: the dual role of deployment builder and feedback channel into Google's product roadmap.