Senior Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE)

18 hours ago

Melbourne, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

Partner with enterprise customers to understand requirements and deliver scalable AI and cloud solutions.
Design, build, and deploy Generative AI applications using Gemini, Vertex AI, and Google Cloud services.
Develop AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions, and enterprise knowledge platforms.
Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data, APIs, business applications, and cloud platforms.
Deliver cloud-native applications and establish observability, monitoring, governance, and operational practices for AI workloads.
Lead technical workshops, architecture discussions, proof-of-concepts, and customer demonstrations.
Collaborate with architects, data engineers, software engineers, and business stakeholders on solution delivery.
Mentor engineers and contribute to reusable assets, accelerators, and engineering best practices.

Strong experience delivering customer-facing technology solutions in enterprise environments.
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and modern cloud architectures.
Experience building Generative AI solutions with LLMs such as Gemini, Claude, GPT, or similar models.
Knowledge of AI agents, RAG, vector search, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks.
Software engineering experience with Python and API-based integrations.
Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, and DevOps practices.
Understanding of enterprise security, governance, and operational requirements.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with technical and business audiences.
Preferred: Google Cloud certifications in Cloud Architecture, Data Engineering, or Machine Learning.
Preferred: experience with Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, consulting, professional services, solution engineering, or forward deployment engineering.
Preferred: exposure to multi-cloud environments including AWS and Azure.