Customer Engineer, Cloud AI, Media and Entertainment, Google Cloud

About the job

When leading companies choose Google Cloud, it's a huge win for spreading the power of cloud computing globally. Once educational institutions, government agencies, and other businesses sign on to use Google Cloud products, you come in to facilitate making their work more productive, mobile, and collaborative. You listen and deliver what is most helpful for the customer. You assist fellow sales Googlers by problem-solving key technical issues for our customers. You liaise with the product marketing management and engineering teams to stay on top of industry trends and devise enhancements to Google Cloud products.

As a Practice Customer Engineer (CE) for Media and Entertainment with a specialty in Cloud AI, you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our entertainment customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of complex, specialized workloads. You will leverage your deep expertise in our product areas, in partnership with Platform CEs, writing code to developing prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos to sell new, highly specialized solutions to customers. You will solve AI-centered customer issues and provide a critical feedback loop to influence product development. You will engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud. You will blend sales prowess, market knowledge, and technical engagement to show the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Drive the technical win for complex workloads within Cloud AI to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the business cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.
• Combine business strategies and direct development and prototyping to provide functional, customer-tailored solutions that secure buy-in from customer domain experts.
• Provide deep technical consultation to customers, acting as a technical advisor and building lasting customer relationships.
• Leverage learnings from customer engagements to contribute to reusable solutions and assets with the Go-To-Market team.
• Work within Product and Engineering management systems to document, prioritize and drive resolution of customer feature requests and issues.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
• Experience with machine learning model development and deployment.
• Experience with AI agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen), agentic design patterns (e.g., tool-use, multi-agent collaboration), or integrating models into autonomous workflows via advanced API prompting or RAG.
• Experience working with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in building machine learning solutions and leveraging specific machine learning architectures (e.g., deep learning, LSTM, convolutional networks).
• Experience in architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience learning and working with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jax, Ray), AI accelerators (e.g., TPUs, GPUs), model architectures (e.g., encoders, decoders, transformers), or using machine learning APIs.