Customer Engineer II, Applied AI, Google Cloud at Google
Mountain View, CA
$148,000–$215,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A pre-sales and post-sales technical role embedded within Google Cloud's Applied AI practice, partnering with enterprise customers to design and implement AI-driven solutions — particularly generative AI and conversational AI for customer experience applications. The engineer conducts architecture reviews, leads Proofs of Concept, and acts as a subject-matter expert bridging customer business requirements and Google Cloud's first-party AI products. Suits someone with a strong cloud-native and AI background who is comfortable presenting to both technical and executive audiences.
Senior level · 6+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
Advertised as Mid, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 160 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer systems analysts). range 65–240
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.
What the occupation pays Median $160,596 (middle half $124,008–$198,593). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'Customer Engineer II' and Google explicitly labels it 'Mid' in the posting header, but the minimum qualifications require 6 years of cloud-native experience plus 2 years of conversational AI experience — a scope and experience bar that aligns with Senior on a standard career ladder.
The primary SOC classification is 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) because the day-to-day work is pre-sales solution architecture, customer advisory, and Proof-of-Concept engagement rather than building and shipping software. However, 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a plausible runner-up given the coding expectations and architecture design responsibilities.
Multiple work locations are listed (Mountain View, Sunnyvale, New York); the CBSA reflects the primary California cluster. New York (CBSA 35620) is also a valid location for this posting.
Compensation is stated as $148,000–$215,000/year plus a 15% bonus target and equity; the bonus and equity are not captured in the comp fields, which reflect base salary only.
Java, C++, and Python are listed together under Preferred qualifications as interchangeable coding language options; Java is used as the primary name with C++ and Python in alternatives.
'Cloud native architecture' and 'ML APIs' are retained as skill names because they represent distinct, named capability areas explicitly called out in the minimum qualifications, even though they are not single-product names.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud native architecture.
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