Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.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.

- 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 (GenAI) solutions utilizing AI tools and designing multi-agent workflows and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.

- Experience leading AI solutions from conception to launch for customers and technical discovery sessions with China-go-Global customers.

- Ability to communicate in Mandarin and English fluently to conduct necessary business interaction with China-go-Global clients.

Preferred qualifications

- Master’s degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

- Experience in designing intuitive interfaces for complex AI and agentic systems, prioritizing context engineering, transparency, and explainability to foster user trust.

- Experience in architecting AI solutions within complex infrastructures, ensuring data sovereignty and secure governance.

- Ability to perform deep ‘discovery’ interviews to find the true business problem and translate complex hardware/AI constraints for C-suites and deep-technical teams.

- Ability to design secure, observable multi-agent systems using complex design patterns (e.g., ReAct, self-reflection), state management, and tool-calling protocols.

About the jobAs a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, you will lead a squad of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) engineers who bridge the gap between frontier 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. You will provide technical mentorship to your team while balancing high-level strategic alignment with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership.

You will empower and unblock your team as they resolve production-level obstacles, including data readiness issues, integration complexities, and state-management challenges that hinder AI from achieving enterprise-grade maturity.It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll excel by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems.

We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.

Responsibilities

- Serve as the ultimate technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.

- Partner with business and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts (e.g., Machine Learning Operations (MLOps),



GenMedia, or Agentic systems) to key accounts.

- Lead technical hiring for forward deployed engineering, evaluating Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an engineering squad.

- Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (e.g., 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 road maps, building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our a href="https://reconciliationactionplan.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank"Reconciliation Action Plan/a for more information.brNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: bSydney NSW, Australia; Melbourne VIC, Australia/b.h3Minimum qualifications:/h3ul liBachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience./li li10 years of experience as a technical sales engineer in a cloud computing environment, or in a customer-facing role./li liExperience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders./li /ulbrh3Preferred qualifications:/h3ul liMaster's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field./li liExperience with developing scalable architectures using microservice frameworks, PaaS, and container orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift), or other applicable platforms./li liExperience with cloud-native software development methodologies and tools to support application development/deployment stages including CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker, Concourse)./li liExperience in advanced areas of networking, including Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, virtual private networks and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies./li liExpertise in serverless architectures and managed services (e.g., Google Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)./li /uldivh2About the job/h2pWhen leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies,



and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative.

You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products./p pAs a Customer Engineer, you will partner with technical Sales teams as an enterprise hybrid cloud subject matter expert to differentiate Google Cloud to the customers.

You will help prospective and existing customers and partners understand the power of Google Cloud, develop creative cloud solutions and architectures to solve their business challenges, engage in proofs of concepts, and troubleshoot any technical questions and roadblocks. You will use your expertise and presentation skills to engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will be a part of a team of fellow Google employees working in an environment of respect, where we promote equal opportunities to succeed./pGoogle 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./divdivh2Responsibilities/h2ul liMake recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution, providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud Platform effectiveness./li liGuide customers through assessments of their existing legacy application environments, provide recommendations on a prioritization roadmap for application modernization, and identify candidates applications for migration to hybrid-cloud computing models./li liDefine integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution. Provide best practice advice to optimize Google Cloud Platform effectiveness, balancing performance, reliability, and cost constraints./li liPartner with cross-functional Sales and Product teams to identify, qualify, and size new business opportunities.

Influence sales strategy development and deploy solutions that protect and expand existing account portfolios./li /ul/div

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment prospect regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

See also a href="https://careers.google.com/eeo/"Google's EEO Policy/a and a href="/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf"EEO is the Law./a If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our a href="https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2"Accommodations for Applicants form/a.

📌 Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, GenAI, (Mandarin, English) (Sydney)
🏢 Google
📍 Sydney