Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Applied AI, Google Cloud at Google
Atlanta, GA
$207,000–$301,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A customer-facing engineering role focused on taking early-stage conversational AI prototypes and building them into production-ready agentic systems on Google Cloud. Day-to-day work involves architecting multi-agent workflows, connecting AI systems to enterprise infrastructure, and building evaluation and observability pipelines. The role suits an experienced software engineer with a background in cloud-based AI systems who is comfortable working directly at customer sites and traveling frequently.
Senior level · 8+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 190 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 140–240
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is posted across 25 US metro locations; San Francisco, CA is listed first and is the primary anchor location used here.
The title 'Forward Deployed Engineer IV' uses a numeric level (IV), which maps to Senior on the career ladder. The advertised level is treated as Unspecified because 'IV' is an internal Google level designation rather than a standard seniority label (Junior/Mid/Senior/etc.) visible in the title framing.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent practical experience'; because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, the degree requirement is set to None — however, the posting does list a Bachelor's as the baseline, so it is captured as Bachelors per the schema rule that 'or equivalent experience' resolves to None. Degree is set to Bachelors as the stated minimum formal credential in the minimum qualifications block.
Compensation is stated as $207,000–$301,000/year base, plus a 20% bonus target and equity; only the base salary range is captured in the comp fields.
The cloud platform requirement names GCP explicitly but uses 'e.g.' framing, indicating other cloud platforms could satisfy it; AWS and Azure are listed as alternatives accordingly.
Terraform is listed in minimum qualifications with 'or similar tools' — alternatives are not populated because no specific peer tool is named and the requirement is clearly on infrastructure-as-code capability broadly; common substitutes (Pulumi, CloudFormation) could apply but the JD names none.
Multi-agent systems, ReAct, RAG, Vertex AI, Gemini, and MCP all appear under Preferred Qualifications or in the narrative/responsibilities sections and are marked preferred.
This role is classified as 15-1252 (Software Developers) because the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping production-grade agentic AI applications and conversational AI systems. 15-1299 is noted as a runner-up given the novel 'Forward Deployed Engineer' framing with a customer-facing delivery component.
The posting explicitly states this is a high-travel role (up to 50% travel); it is not a remote position.
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