Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, GenAI (Mandarin, English)

About the role

Google Cloud is looking for a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. You will lead a squad of AI/ML engineers who bridge frontier AI products and production-grade reality inside customers, coding, debugging and jointly deploying bespoke agentic solutions directly in customer environments. The role balances technical mentorship with strategic alignment to Product, Engineering and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead, setting code standards, architectural best practices and benchmarks.
• Partner with business and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialists such as MLOps, GenMedia or Agentic systems experts to key accounts.
• Lead technical hiring for forward deployed engineering, assessing AI/ML expertise, systems engineering and coding skills.
• Identify skill gaps in emerging tech such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool-calling and foundation models.
• Work with product and engineering to turn field insights into roadmaps and build internal tools that improve efficiency.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in cloud computing or a technical customer-facing role.
• 2 years managing a software engineering, forward deployed engineering or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud environment.
• Experience developing AI/GenAI solutions, designing multi-agent workflows and RAG systems, and leading AI solutions from conception to launch with China-go-Global customers.
• Fluent Mandarin and English for business interaction with China-go-Global clients.
• Preferred: Master's or PhD in AI, Computer Science or a related field; experience designing intuitive interfaces for complex AI and agentic systems, architecting AI solutions with data sovereignty and secure governance, and conducting deep discovery interviews.

Google prioritizes applicants with a current right to work in Singapore who do not need visa sponsorship.