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Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, Generative AI, Google Cloud

Google· Go-To-Market / Google Cloud
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Hybrid (Mumbai)Full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Manager of a Generative AI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team responsible for bridging frontier AI products and production-grade solutions within customer environments, providing technical mentorship, and partnering with sales, product, and engineering to deliver bespoke agentic AI solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the 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 (MLOps, GenMedia, or Agentic systems) to key accounts.
  • Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team.
  • Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (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 while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, 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 (FDE), or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
  • Experience developing AI/GenAI solutions utilizing AI tools, or designing multi-agent workflows or Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
  • Experience in Python or similar coding language.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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