Principal AI Architect Partner Co-Innovation Google Cloud

About The Job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. As a Principal Partner AI Architect, you will be the technical "tip of the spear" for Google’s AI partnership strategy. You will act as an entrepreneurial architect, responsible for making Gemini Enterprise a reality within our partners' unique environments. You won't just provide support; you will co-build and solve the "impossible" technical hurdles that prevent partners from reaching production at scale. Your work will directly impact how the world's largest organizations adopt Google’s AI ecosystem, accelerating the transition from pilot projects to enterprise-wide production value. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead deep technical co-innovation with Google Cloud’s most strategic partners to architect and deploy generative AI solutions (e.g., Gemini Enterprise) in high-scale environments.
• Identify and solve architectural bottlenecks that hinder partner deployment velocity, ranging from model steering and API performance to hybrid-cloud integration constraints.
• Productize bespoke integration work into versioned, validated deployment baselines that can be scaled across the global partner ecosystem.
• Act as an entrepreneurial technical lead, guiding partner CTOs and Principal Engineers on the "art of the possible" and long-term AI strategy.
• Collaborate with internal product and engineering teams to feed partner requirements back into the development cycle, ensuring Google’s AI tools are enterprise-ready.

Key skills/competency

• Generative AI Solutions
• Gemini Enterprise
• Cloud Architecture
• AI Partnership Strategy
• Technical Co-Innovation
• Scalable Deployment
• Hybrid-Cloud Integration
• AI Strategy
• Partner CTO Engagement
• Google Cloud Platform