AI Customer Engineer, Retail, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Singapore

Customer Engineer specializing in AI for the retail sector on Google Cloud. This role involves partnering with technical sales teams to drive adoption of AI solutions, acting as a technical expert to develop prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos. The engineer will solve AI-centered customer issues, provide technical consultation, and influence product development by documenting and prioritizing customer feature requests. Key responsibilities include architecting solutions integrating AI models with enterprise data using patterns like RAG and Text-to-SQL, and coding in languages like Python. Experience with agent frameworks and observability for AI applications is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the technical solution for complex workloads within AI product areas to ensure rapid and successful adoption, primarily supporting the sales cycle from technical evaluation through customer ramp.
  2. Combine sales strategies and direct development and prototyping to provide functional, customer-tailored solutions that secure buy-in from customer domain experts.
  3. 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.
  4. Work within Product and Engineering management systems to document, prioritize and drive resolution of customer feature requests and issues.
  5. Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required, acting as a public advocate for Google Cloud.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.
  • Experience in architecting solutions that integrate AI models using agents with enterprise data sources using patterns like RAG, Text-to-SQL, and semantic search.
  • Experience with coding in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, Go, or Java, to demo, prototype, or workshop integration patterns with customers.

Nice to have

  • Experience in developing agents using frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or the Google AI Agent Development Kit (ADK).
  • Experience with cloud technologies including SaaS applications, iPaaS, business automation solutions, Cloud infrastructure, Agentic AI, and cloud networking.
  • Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or executive leaders.
  • Knowledge of integration patterns using OpenAPI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents with business systems and Application Programming Interface (API) gateways.
  • Knowledge of observability constructs including distributed tracing, logging, and audit logging for AI applications.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI models using agents
  • RAG
  • Text-to-SQL
  • semantic search
  • agents
  • AI Agent Development Kit (ADK)
  • AI agents
  • AI applications

Other signals

  • customer-facing technical expert
  • accelerating adoption of specialized workloads
  • writing code, developing prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and demos
  • solve AI-centered customer issues
  • feedback loop to influence product development
  • technical sales teams
  • customer business and technical requirements
  • practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud
  • AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform
  • solve business problems
  • DeepMind's engineering and research minds
  • solve customer challenges
  • drive customer success
  • technical solution for complex workloads within AI product areas
  • rapid and successful adoption
  • supporting the sales cycle
  • technical evaluation through customer ramp
  • direct development and prototyping
  • functional, customer-tailored solutions
  • secure buy-in from customer domain experts
  • deep technical consultation to customers
  • technical advisor
  • building lasting customer relationships
  • reusable solutions and assets
  • document, prioritize and drive resolution of customer feature requests and issues
  • architecting solutions that integrate AI models using agents with enterprise data sources
  • patterns like RAG, Text-to-SQL, and semantic search
  • coding in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, Go, or Java
  • demo, prototype, or workshop integration patterns with customers
  • developing agents using frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or the Google AI Agent Development Kit (ADK)
  • integration patterns using OpenAPI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI agents with business systems and Application Programming Interface (API) gateways
  • observability constructs including distributed tracing, logging, and audit logging for AI applications