Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, GenAI (Mandarin, English)
Hybrid (Singapore)Posted 3d ago
About the role
Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team bridging frontier AI products and production-grade solutions within customer environments. Leads AI/ML engineers, mentors the team, and collaborates with Product, Engineering, and Google Cloud leadership to deliver bespoke agentic AI solutions at customer sites.
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 to key accounts.
- Lead technical hiring for forward deployed engineering, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an engineering squad.
- Identify skill gaps in emerging tech, 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.
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.
Skills
Required:AI/ML team leadershipGenAI solution designStakeholder management
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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