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AI Infrastructure Global Technical Sales Lead

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Compensation
$192–267K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The AI Infrastructure Global Technical Sales Lead serves as a field technical leader guiding enterprise AI infrastructure strategy. The role leads complex customer engagements, helping technical buyers and executives evaluate, design, and scale AI infrastructure solutions. It bridges product management, solution engineering, and go-to-market teams, and represents customer requirements to product and engineering teams to influence future hardware, software, and platform capabilities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technical Pre-SalesSystems EngineeringTechnical ConsultingHPCAI NetworkingGPU PerformanceTechnical Sales StrategyEnterprise SalesAI/ML Infrastructure ArchitectureData Center SolutionsTechnical PresentationsExecutive CommunicationEcosystem PartnershipsWorkload TroubleshootingWorkload BenchmarkingWorkload OptimizationDistributed TrainingInference FrameworksNCCLAI Software StacksDistributed Systems

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent10 Years Technical ExperienceMaster's or PhD in Related FieldEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Austin, TX, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Houston, TX, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 10 years of experience in technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or technical consulting focused on modern HPC, AI networking, or GPU/accelerator application performance.

  • Experience building and executing technical sales strategies for enterprise customers across distributed organizations.

  • Experience architecting and selling full-stack AI/ML compute infrastructure and data center solutions.

  • Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

  • Experience partnering with ecosystem players, including OEMs, ODMs, and specialized cloud providers.

  • Demonstrated experience troubleshooting, benchmarking, and optimizing workloads running across heterogeneous or mixed-compute environments.

  • Deep knowledge of distributed training and inference frameworks, collective communications libraries (e.g., NCCL), and modern AI software stacks.

  • Track record of building alignment with C-suite executives and translating complex distributed systems concepts into strategic business outcomes.

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.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions, and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology to help our customers solve their most critical business problems.

As an AI Infrastructure Global Technical Sales Lead, you will serve as a field technical leader guiding our enterprise AI infrastructure strategy. In this high-impact role, you will bridge the gap between product management, solution engineering, and go-to-market teams to drive strategic customer outcomes.

You will act as the technical lead for complex customer engagements, helping technical buyers and business executives navigate modern data center strategies, operation layers, and workload scoping. By combining pre-sales systems architecture expertise with clear executive communication, you will help customers evaluate, design, and scale large-scale AI infrastructure solutions.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $192000 - $267000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer-facing technical engagements, partnering with C-level executives, research leads, and engineering teams to define AI infrastructure strategy and optimize price-per-flop performance.

  • Guide customers through complex system architecture designs, including workload sizing, mixed-compute deployments, and performance trade-offs between TPU and GPU clusters.

  • Partner cross-functionally with Core Infrastructure Engineering, Specialist Sales, and Product Management to resolve technical blockers on tier-one engagements and develop global sales playbooks.

  • Define requirements across backend operational layers and distributed systems to accelerate adoption of specialized accelerator hardware and large model training/inference stacks.

  • Represent customer requirements back to product and engineering teams to influence future hardware roadmaps, software tooling, and platform capabilities.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,755 open Technical Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$192–267K/yr
  • California median$140–241K/yr220 salary ranges
  • US median$123–193K/yr1,282 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $230K, is 14% above the California median midpoint ($202K) — in the middle half of Technical Sales salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 255 open Technical Sales jobs in California and 1,755 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Technical Sales postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,327 postings).
Education
552 of the 1,755 open Technical Sales jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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