About the role

What will you do at Google?

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

* 10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or

support role.

* Experience engaging with, or presenting to, technical stakeholders or

executive leaders.

* Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience partnering with State and Local government customers, to drive

digital transformation and AI-readiness.

* Expertise migrating and modernizing legacy applications to scalable cloud

platforms, laying the essential data groundwork for advanced AI/ML workloads.

* Experience architecting solutions and building compelling demonstrations

using generative AI technologies, specifically Gemini and autonomous agentic

workflows.

* Thorough understanding of enterprise security and complex networking

principles to secure AI pipelines, LLM deployments, and distributed

architectures.

* Proven agility to rapidly learn and adapt to the changing evolution of

emerging AI methodologies and new Google Cloud solutions.

ABOUT THE JOB:

As a Customer Engineer, you will partner with technical Sales teams to

differentiate Google Cloud and our unique Google Public Sector offerings for our

state and local government customers throughout the Southwestern US. You will

empower universities and colleges to harness the full potential of the Google

ecosystem by designing creative, agentic AI solutions that solve complex

institutional issues.

Moving beyond traditional data lifecycles, you will lead proofs of concept and

guide technical strategy to build proactive, autonomous AI agents and

intelligent data ecosystems that transform the student, researcher, and

administrative experience. Leveraging your technical expertise and compelling

presentation skills, you will engage with government leaders to translate their

academic requirements into visionary, highly automated, and practical

architectures tailored for the public sector.

Bringing excellent technical, communication, and organizational skills, you will

join a team of fellow Googlers dedicated to mutual respect and equal

opportunities for success.

Google Public Sector

[https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/public-sector/#:~:text=We're%20committed%20to%20advancing,%2C%20research%2C%20and%20edtech%20companies.]

brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with

solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States

public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we

continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex

needs of local, state and federal government and educational

institutions.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related

skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 42.86% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Collaborate with the Sales team to uncover and qualify Google Cloud and

AI-first opportunities, proactively addressing technical objections around

adoption, and developing pathways to clear technical blockers.

* Own the technical relationship with our State and Local Government customers

in southwest area, leading immersive product briefings on Google Cloud and

Google's GenAI portfolio, driving agentic proof-of-concept work, and

orchestrating specialized technical resources across Google Public Sector.

* Demonstrate prototype intelligent integrations, bringing autonomous agents

and AI-powered workflows to life directly within complex customer and partner

environments.

* Design AI-optimized enterprise architectures and integration strategies,

laying the secure platform and data infrastructure foundations required to

successfully deploy comprehensive, forward-looking solutions using Google

Cloud best practices.

* Travel to customer sites, industry conferences, and related events as

required to advocate Google Public Sector's goal and engage directly with

government leaders.

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud native architectureAutonomous agentic workflowsNetworking principlesDistributed architecturesCloud platformsPresentation skillsSLEDCloud NativeAutonomous AgentsArchitectureProof of ConceptCloud PlatformsDistributed SystemsEducationIntegration StrategiesPrototypingCustomer EngineeringGCPMachine LearningLLMs

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