Customer Engineer, Cloud AI, Financial Services

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA . Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience with cloud native architecture in industry or a customer-facing or support role.
Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.
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 leveraging programming or technical proficiencies to demo, prototype, or workshop with customers.
Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in building machine learning solutions and leveraging specific machine learning architectures (e.g., deep learning, long short-term memory (LSTM), convolutional networks).
Experience in architecting and developing software or infrastructure for scalable, distributed systems.
Experience with frameworks for deep learning (e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow etc.), AI accelerators (e.g., TPUs), model architectures (e.g., encoders, decoders), or using machine learning APIs.
Experience working within financial services industry.
Ability to learn quickly, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space.
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) with a specialty in Cloud AI, you will partner with technical sales teams to differentiate Google Cloud to our customers. You will serve as a technical expert responsible for accelerating technical wins and adoption of specialized workloads. You will leverage your expertise in our product areas, in partnership with Platform CEs, to be writing code to developing prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos to promote 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 have excellent organizational, communication, and presentation skills, engaging 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 prove the value of the Google Cloud portfolio.
It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll grow by leveraging Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $105,000-$151,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

Drive the technical win for workloads within Cloud AI to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the sales cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.
Combine sales strategies and development and prototyping to provide functional, customer-tailored solutions that secure buy-in from customer domain experts.
Provide 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .