Full-Time

Forward Deployed Engineer

Generative AI, Google Cloud

Posted on 8/20/2026

Google

Google

10,001+ employees

Tech giant offering search, ads, cloud

No salary listed

Sydney NSW, Australia

In Person

Bachelor's, Master's, PhD

Category
AI & Machine Learning (2)
,
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Python
Computer Networking
RAG
Microservices
Terraform
Observability
REST APIs
Google Cloud Platform

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Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of software development experience using Python or similar coding languages.
  • Experience architecting artificial intelligence systems on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience deploying resources with Terraform or similar tools to automate agents, functions, or networking setup.
  • Experience building full-stack applications that interact with enterprise information technology infrastructures and developing external customer projects.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the lead developer for conversational artificial intelligence and customer experience applications, transitioning rapid prototypes to production-grade agentic workflows.
  • Architect and code conversational flows integrating Google conversational artificial intelligence products with customer infrastructure, application programming interfaces, legacy data silos, and security perimeters.
  • Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks for agentic workloads, optimizing reasoning loops and tool selection while reducing latency and maintaining production-grade security and networking.
  • Identify repeatable field patterns and technical friction points in Google's Applied Artificial Intelligence stack and convert them into reusable modules or product feature requests for engineering teams.
  • Co-build with customer engineering teams to establish Google-grade development best practices and support long-term project success and end-user adoption.
Desired Qualifications
  • A master's degree or PhD in artificial intelligence, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience debugging agent logic and optimizing tool selection, including tracing conversation identifiers across microservices to identify and resolve real-time failures.
  • Experience connecting agents to enterprise knowledge bases and optimizing retrieval-augmented generation chunking to prevent hallucinations.
  • Experience troubleshooting live, high-traffic systems during critical windows.

Google provides internet services and products, including a widely used search engine and a large ecosystem of tools for individuals and businesses. It works by processing user queries and ranking results with relevance and personalized data, while its advertising platforms show targeted ads to users. Its products span cloud computing (Google Cloud), productivity software (Google Workspace), and hardware like Pixel phones and Nest devices, all connected through data and machine learning. Its goal is to organize the world’s information so it is universally accessible and useful, while supporting a sustainable business model built on ads and a growing software, cloud, and hardware portfolio.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

1998

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Q2 2026 revenue rose 24% to $119.8 billion, beating expectations handily.
  • Google Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion, powered by AI infrastructure and solutions.
  • Google hired Windsurf leaders for $2.4 billion, strengthening agentic coding and developer tools.

What critics are saying

  • DOJ remedies bar exclusive Search, Chrome, Assistant, and Gemini deals through 2031.
  • Google must share search index and interaction data, accelerating rivals like OpenAI and Perplexity.
  • Ongoing cloud and design layoffs signal AI spending pressure; margins compress if monetization slows.

What makes Google unique

  • Google Search still drives 17% revenue growth and unmatched query-scale distribution.
  • Gemini reached 950 million monthly users by July 2026, embedded across Search and Cloud.
  • Google Cloud backlog hit $514 billion, giving Alphabet durable enterprise demand visibility.

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