Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Cloud, AI Expert

Why Valtech? We're the experience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world's most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience.

The opportunity

At Valtech, you'll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you''re pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.

We are proud of:

• The work we do and the innovation we drive
• Our values of share, care and dare
• A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy
• Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration

The role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) with deep expertise in Google Cloud and applied AI to embed directly with our enterprise customers and turn frontier AI capabilities into production-grade systems. This role is for an engineer who thrives on ambiguity, codes alongside customer teams, and owns AI initiatives end-to-end - from technical discovery through architecture, build, deployment, and handoff.

The ideal candidate has shipped agentic AI solutions on Google Cloud, is fluent in Vertex AI and Gemini, and is comfortable architecting multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and tool-calling integrations against messy enterprise environments. You will operate as an embedded builder - not an advisor - writing production code, debugging live systems, and co-developing with the customer's engineering team to instill Google-grade engineering best practices and accelerate AI adoption.

This position is remote and may require occasional travel

Role responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams and lead technical discovery sessions with business stakeholders, engineering leadership, and security to translate ambiguous business problems into clear AI architectures and delivery plans.
• Architect, code, and ship production-grade agentic AI solutions on Google Cloud - including multi-agent systems, MCP servers, sub-agents, skills, connectors, agentic wrappers, and safety guardrails - that move customers beyond pilots into measurable business value.
• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and grounding architectures, including chunking strategy, vector databases, and embedding optimization to prevent hallucinations and ensure response quality.
• Build the "connective tissue" between Google's AI products and customer infrastructure, including APIs, legacy data silos, identity, and security perimeters.
• Implement multi-agent patterns such as ReAct, self-reflection, and hierarchical delegation using frameworks like Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) or LangGraph
• Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks for agentic systems, with attention to accuracy, safety, latency, cost-per-request, and tokens-per-second.
• Debug agent logic and optimize tool selection in live, high-traffic environments, including tracing conversation and request IDs across microservices to resolve production failures.
• Co-build with customer engineering teams and act as a hands-on advocate for AI-assisted development, introducing and operationalizing AI coding tools to accelerate delivery and elevate engineering practices.
• Drive a deliberate handoff to the customer's team, ensuring long-term ownership, documentation, and end-user adoption after the engagement concludes.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture decision records, and evaluation results across all assigned engagements.

Must have qualifications

To be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of software development experience using Python, TypeScript, or comparable languages, with a track record of shipping production-grade code to external or internal customers.

• Hands-on experience architecting and deploying AI systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including:

• Vertex AI - Vertex AI - model deployment, fine-tuning workflows, evaluation, and platform-level observability.

• Gemini models - Gemini models - prompt engineering, structured outputs, function/tool calling, and multimodal use cases.

• BigQuery and Cloud Storage - BigQuery and Cloud Storage - as data and grounding sources for AI workloads.

• Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub - Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub - for deploying and orchestrating agentic services.

• Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform - designing, configuring, and deploying enterprise-grade agents, grounding on customer data sources, integrating tools and connectors

• Demonstrated experience building agentic and AI-driven solutions in production, including:

• LLM application development - LLM application development - prompt engineering, agent development, and evaluation frameworks.

• RAG architectures - RAG architectures - vector databases, chunking strategy, and retrieval evaluation.

• Data pipelines - Data pipelines - structured and unstructured data ingestion to power enterprise-grade AI solutions.

• Experience deploying cloud resources via Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Experience leading technical discovery sessions with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define AI requirements and translate ambiguous business goals into technical roadmaps.

• Experience integrating AI systems with enterprise IT infrastructure, including authenticated APIs, legacy data systems, and corporate security perimeters.

• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time to customer sites.

• AI proficiency for productivity

• Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to explain complex AI and architectural concepts to both deep-technical engineers and non-technical executives.

Nice to have qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.

• Experience implementing multi-agent systems using frameworks such as Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK), LangGraph, or CrewAI, and complex agent patterns including ReAct, self-reflection, and hierarchical delegation.

• Hands-on experience designing and deploying Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tool-calling protocols, and connector ecosystems for agentic systems.

• Knowledge of "LLM-native" operational metrics (tokens/sec, cost-per-request, time-to-first-token) and techniques for optimizing state management, granular tracing, and conversation-ID propagation across microservices.

• Track record of troubleshooting live, high-traffic production AI systems during critical windows.

• Experience architecting AI solutions within complex infrastructures, including data sovereignty, secure governance, and air-gapped or regulated environments.

• Experience designing user-facing interfaces for AI and agentic systems with attention to context engineering, transparency, and explainability.

• Experience driving organization-wide initiatives (e.g., migrations to new AI stacks, engineering-velocity programs) that deliver measurable improvements to engineering productivity and business outcomes.

• Experience as an advocate for AI-assisted software development, including introducing AI coding assistants to enterprise engineering teams and developing internal best practices for their use.

• Google Cloud certifications:

• Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

• Familiarity with full-stack application development and REST/GraphQL API design.

If you do not meet all the listed qualifications or have gaps in your experience, we still encourage you to apply. At Valtech, we recognize that talent comes in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and a willingness to learn.

The benefits

This is a Full time position based in the United States. The offered salary range is $125,000 usd - $225,000 annually, depending on experience and location.

Beyond a competitive compensation package, we offer:

• Flexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country-dependent)
• Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs
• Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, plus employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

Our benefits are tailored to each location. Your Talent Partner will provide full details during the hiring process.

Your application process

Once you apply, our Talent Acquisition team will review your application. If your skills and experience align with the role, we'll reach out for next steps. Your CV should cover key information on relevant experiences and expertise. We do not require information such as age, gender, marital status, or a headshot in your application. We review all candidates based on skills, experience, and potential.

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We are committed to inclusion and accessibility. If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please either indicate it in your application or let your Talent Partner know.

About Valtech

Valtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, we help brands unlock new value in an increasingly digital world.

At the intersection of data, AI, creativity, and technology, we drive transformation for leading organizations, including L'Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen Dolby, and more.

At Valtech, we don't just talk about transformation. We make it happen. Our people are the heart of our success, and we foster a workplace where everyone has the support to thrive, grow and innovate.

Are you ready to create what's next? Join us.