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An Artificial Intelligence Engineer develops, tests, and deploys artificial intelligence models. May work closely with data software engineers and data professionals to train and implement AI models into existing systems or develop new applications.
$160,491 / year median in California
Job Description
FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) (Folsom, CA, 95763), (Chandler, AZ, 85286) | 09/08/26
Job Description Title:
FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Location:
Chandler, AZ, Folsom, CA - On-Site role
Duration:
Long-Term Contract - W2 Mandatory skills: Master-level ADK and full-stack data engineering Job Description Role Summary
Owns hands-on deployment, integration, and stabilization of AI agents in Intel's environment. Acts as the full-stack data / ADK engineer with master-level grasp of complex ADK builds and Finance/HR workflows, bridging engineering and operations to accelerate go-live and adoption. Key Responsibilities
- Deploy agents to Gemini Enterprise Agent Engine, Cloud Run, or GKE with IAM, VPC-SC, and Model Armor.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, and secrets management.
- Integrate complex ADK agents with enterprise data sources and Finance/HR workflows.
- Troubleshoot integration, performance, and reliability issues; enable observability and tracing.
- Drive early adoption, feedback loops, and rapid iteration with Intel users; lead hypercare/stabilization. Mandatory (Must-Have) Skills
- Master-level ADK and full-stack data engineering skills.
- Complex Finance/HR workflow knowledge and enterprise integration.
- Strong Python; hands-on GKE, Cloud Run, Agent Engine, Terraform, Cloud Build/Deploy.
- Google Cloud IAM, VPC-SC, and security controls. Preferred (Good-to-Have) Skills
- Data extraction/normalization from Databricks, ServiceNow, Snowflake, OneDrive, Adobe.
- Vertex AI, observability tooling, SRE practices.
- Customer-facing deployment experience. Experience & Certifications
- 7+ years DevOps/SRE/cloud engineering with 1+ year GenAI deployments.
- Google Cloud Professional certification preferred.
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