Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Google Cloud Consulting
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in cloud computing or a technical customer-facing role, with experience in Python.
- 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, forward deployed engineering, or a similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
- Experience developing AI/Generative AI solutions utilizing AI tools and designing multi-agent workflows and RAG systems.
- Experience in people management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience in architecting AI solutions within complex infrastructures, ensuring data sovereignty and secure governance.
- Experience in designing intuitive interfaces for complex AI and agentic systems, prioritizing context engineering, transparency, and explainability to foster user trust.
- Ability to design end-to-end secure, observable multi-agent systems using complex design patterns (ReAct, self-reflection, etc.), state management, and tool-calling protocols.
About the job
As a Manager of a Google Cloud Consulting - Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, you will lead a squad of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) engineers who bridge the gap between AI products and production-grade reality within customers. You will be responsible for a team that doesn't just consult, but codes, debugs, and jointly deploys bespoke agentic solutions directly within customer environments.
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In this role, you will provide technical mentorship to your team, managing high-level alignment with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership. Your mission is to empower and unblock your team as they resolve production-level obstacles, including data readiness issues, integration complexities, and state-management issues that hinder AI from achieving enterprise-grade maturity.
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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the ultimate technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.
- Partner with sales and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts (Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Generative Media (GenMedia), or Agentic systems) to key accounts.
- Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an engineering squad.
- Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool-calling, and foundation models), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving AI stack.
- Collaborate with product and engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps, building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.
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