Google Cloud is hiring an army of AI deployment engineers

Google Cloud is hiring an army of AI deployment engineers

The hyperscaler has job postings for 59 roles related to moving customers beyond experimentation, as deployment muscle becomes a front in the battle for AI talent.

Here’s one career emerging from the AI shift: ‘forward-deployed engineers’

On Thursday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian issued a call for “forward-deployed engineers” to apply for jobs in the company’s go-to-market AI team. Their task: help non-tech organizations scale up their AI deployments. That term — forward-deployed engineers, FDE for short — has been coming up a lot lately in conversations with CTOs, software engineers, and experts tracking the technology and job markets. Google currently has 1,513 openings for t…