Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Applied AI, Google Cloud

Summary

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. 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.