Forward Deployed Engineer, DeepMind
This posting has since been taken down. We keep it because a closed requisition still proves Google created and funded this role — it is not a sign the company stopped hiring for it.
- Employer
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 5+ years
- Pay band
- $174K – $253K
- Team
- IC Engineer
When we saw it
- First seen 2026-07-01 — the first scan of ours that found it
- Last seen open 2026-07-01
- Gone by 2026-07-27 — the first scan that no longer found it
- Archived 2026-07-01 — when we saved this copy
Found via Google Careers.
From the posting
The team works at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Community. We advocate partner success and model excellence by embedding with DeepMinds (DM's) most strategic developers. Through collaborative engineering, joint benchmarking, and feedback loops, we run systematic evaluations (evals) to accelerate model improvements, unblock key integrations, and showcase Gemini’s capabilities at scale. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will serve as the technical bridge between DeepMind's model teams and our most strategic partners. Embedded directly in the partner's engineering journey, you will design joint evaluations, unblock complex integrations, and synthesize high-fidelity technical signals to directly influence model development. …
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What this tells you about the FDE role
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