Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Generative AI, Google Cloud

As a Manager of a Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, you will lead a squad of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) engineers who bridge the gap between 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.

In this role, you will provide technical mentorship to your team, managing high-level alignment with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership. Your mission is to empower and unblock your team as they resolve production-level obstacles, including data readiness issues, integration complexities, and state-management issues 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Ireland: €186000 - €191000 (EUR) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Partner with sales and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts (Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Generative Media (GenMedia), or Agentic systems) to key accounts.

Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an engineering squad.

Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (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 roadmaps, building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

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, with experience in Python.

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 solutions utilizing AI tools and designing multi-agent workflows and RAG systems.

Experience in people management.

Preferred qualifications:

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

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

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

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

Ability to communicate in French, Spanish, Italian or other European languages fluently.