machine-learning-operations jobs in San Diego

Develop scalable AI engineering patterns and production-quality code for government clients, balancing quality, safety, latency, cost, and model risk. Apply strong practices in testing, CI/CD, logging, versioning, and documentation while designing extensible functionality aligned with senior team members.…See more Requires 4+ years of software/data engineering experience, 1+ year building and deploying GenAI or LLM solutions, and 1+ year with Google Cloud (Gemini API, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Grounding, or Google Workspace integration). Lead project workstreams, translate business problems into AI solutions, and contribute reusable assets including code, prompt libraries, runbooks, and reference implementations.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer IV in Applied AI at Google Cloud, you will lead end-to-end engineering for production conversational AI systems, transforming prototypes into scalable agentic workflows deployed at customer sites. You'll architect multi-agent systems using frameworks like ReAct, optimize RAG implementations, debug agent logic across microservices, and connect AI systems to enterprise infrastructure.…See more The role requires 8+ years of software development (Python or similar), experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), cloud platform deployment (GCP), and hands-on full-stack application development. You'll travel up to 50% and work directly with customers to establish production AI journeys while identifying patterns that feed back into product improvements.