Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Cloud, AI Expert

About this role

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 a nd 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:

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

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

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

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

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• 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:

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

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

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• 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

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