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Lead GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer, YouTube GTM Operations

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San Bruno; New York; Mountain View, CA; NYJob$186–269K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$186–269K/yr
Location
San Bruno; New York; Mountain View, CA; NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google’s YouTube AI Accelerator team builds applied AI solutions to transform business go-to-market operations. The Lead GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer partners with business and product stakeholders to identify operational bottlenecks, develop prototypes, and deliver production-grade AI applications. The role spans consulting, product strategy, and systems engineering, with a focus on measurable business impact, reliable evaluation, observability, safety, and compliance.

Skills & qualifications

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Skills

Computer ScienceElectrical EngineeringGeneral MathematicsSoftware DevelopmentAPI ManagementWeb ApplicationsMicroservicesDistributed ComputingInformation PrivacyFull Stack Software EngineeringPython (Programming Language)Go (Programming Language)Java (Programming Language)C++ (Programming Language)TypeScriptSREInformation Security ManagementDevOpsVulnerability ScanningInformation Security AuditMulti-Agent SystemsCustomer Relationship ManagementAPI DevelopmentWeb Application DevelopmentScalable Architecture DesignBackend Data PipelinesDistributed SystemsData PrivacyFull-Stack DevelopmentApplied AI SolutionsProduct RoadmappingTechnical LeadershipInfoSecLLM Evaluation PipelinesObservabilityLLM Metrics OptimizationVulnerability TestingSecurity AuditingAI Safety GuardrailsEnterprise AI Data InfrastructureVector DatabasesEmbedding GenerationSearch ArchitecturesData ReadinessState ManagementMCPOrchestration FrameworksGTM WorkflowsSales WorkflowsCRMTechnical AdoptionGenAI PrototypingRAGAgentic Frameworks

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Quantitative Field or Equivalent9 Years API or Web Application Experience8 Years Full-Stack Development Experience4 Years Product Roadmap Experience4 Years Tech Lead or Engineering Manager ExperienceMaster's or PhD in AI or CS4 Years SRE, InfoSec, or DevOps Experience2 Years Vulnerability Testing and Security Auditing ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience in software development.
  • 9 years of experience building APIs or web applications, designing scalable microservice or system architectures, including backend data pipelines, distributed systems, and data privacy.
  • 8 years of experience in full-stack development using one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++, or TypeScript) with practical experience building enterprise-grade applied AI solutions.
  • 4 years of experience working with teams and business stakeholders to create product roadmaps.
  • 4 years of experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 4 years of experience with SRE, InfoSec, or DevOps, with experience building LLM evaluation (evals) pipelines, observability, and optimizing LLM-native metrics at scale.
  • 2 years of experience in vulnerability testing, security auditing, implementing AI safety guardrails, and ensuring enterprise accuracy.
  • Experience with enterprise AI data infrastructure (vector databases, embedding generation, search architectures, data readiness, and state-management).
  • Experience designing multi-agent systems (ReAct, tool-calling), MCP, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Knowledge of GTM, sales workflows, or CRMs, with experience driving technical adoption of zero-to-one AI products.

About the job In gTech Users and Products (gUP), our mission is to advocate for Google’s users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. We achieve this by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with our product partners and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Google's diverse product ecosystem. Additionally we provide a range of product services that ensure our products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration, and more). It's an exciting time to join YouTube's Go To Market Organization's AI Accelerator team, devising the AI transformation for YouTube Business GTM operations. The AI Accelerator is a newly formed task group dedicated to driving AI transformation across the organization. Our mission is to operate as a high-velocity, horizontal transformation engine, partnering directly with YouTube Biz GTM business domains to fundamentally redesign legacy workflows from scratch and leverage applied AI to drive direct business impact for YouTube. We operate at the intersection of consulting, product strategy, applied AI and systems engineering. We identify the most painful operational bottlenecks across the organization and rapidly deploy intelligent, enterprise-grade AI powered solutions to solve them.

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

US: $186000 - $269000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities

  • Build GenAI PoCs (LLMs, RAG, agentic frameworks) to demonstrate feasibility to stakeholders, translating ambiguous business problems into software solutions.
  • Serve as engineering Lead delivering complex AI applications, transitioning rapid prototypes to production-grade systems (e.g., multi-agent systems, MCP servers) that drive Return on Investment (ROI).
  • Act as a trusted engineering partner to product managements and stakeholders, co-creating tool roadmaps that enable YouTube's business operations.
  • Author technical designs, write clean/maintainable code, build front-ends, and deliver from scoping to deployment.
  • Build high-performance eval pipelines and observability frameworks to resolve AI bottlenecks (data readiness, system integration, state-management) while ensuring accuracy, safety, compliance, and latency.

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How this job compares

Set against the 2,924 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$186–269K/yr
  • US median$140–265K/yr2,571 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $228K, is 14% above the US median midpoint ($200K) — in the middle half of Forward Deployed Engineer salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 2,924 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 9 years of experience — more than three in four Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,547 postings).
Education
604 of the 2,924 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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