Forward Deployed Engineer III, Google Cloud, Applied AI

Summary

As a Forward Deployed Engineer III in Applied AI at Google Cloud, you will lead end-to-end engineering for conversational AI and agentic workflows, transforming prototypes into production-ready solutions deployed at customer sites. You'll architect multi-agent systems using Google's Vertex AI platform and Gemini models, build evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks, and integrate with enterprise infrastructure via APIs and legacy systems. The role requires 5+ years of software development experience (Python or similar), expertise architecting AI systems on cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform), and the ability to troubleshoot complex, high-traffic systems in real time. You'll travel up to 50% of the time to customer sites and collaborate with customer engineering teams to establish best practices and drive adoption.