Field Application Engineer, Cloud AI Infrastructure
Kirkland, WA, USA · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 2 years in each of the specified debug/validation, technical infrastructure, and hardware debug areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Provides on-site customer support for Google Cloud AI infrastructure by debugging hardware and platform issues, resolving deployments and operations obstacles, and feeding customer insights into product improvements.
What you'll do
- Manage on-call CPU- and TPU-based server and data center issues; diagnose and resolve customer problems and develop investigation tools.
- Troubleshoot and reproduce hardware and AI/ML infrastructure issues, identify root causes, and build tools for faster diagnosis.
- Advise customers and internal teams, and collaborate with Product, Quality, Engineering, and SRE teams to improve products and reliability.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of debug or validation experience with CPU, dGPU, or TPU.
- 2 years of experience with technical infrastructure deployment or maintenance, troubleshooting, quality, and reliability.
- 2 years of hardware debug experience; experience with Linux/Unix and troubleshooting across the hardware/software stack on enterprise-grade server infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience working directly with AI/ML computing hardware, including GPUs or other accelerators.
- Experience with systems automation and design/debug, vendors or customers, distributed systems, ML frameworks, or memory and high-speed IO technologies.
Pay
$132000 - $189000 (USD) base salary
Tools
CPU, dGPU, TPU, Linux/Unix, TensorFlow, PyTorch, SRE
AI focus
Supports AI/ML infrastructure by debugging CPU-, GPU-, and TPU-based hardware and understanding AI/ML workloads; develops tools to accelerate diagnosis.
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