> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6d6f76669f791f27 Google posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Mountain View, CA and 1 more, at $174,000–$232,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Forward-deployed engineer embedded between DeepMind research teams and strategic partners, owning benchmark onboarding, joint evaluations, and complex integrations for Kaggle. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) First seen Oct 8, 2026 · open on Google careers as of Nov 8, 2026 **$174,000–$232,000** *annualized* Mountain View, CA +1 Contract Forward-deployed engineer embedded between DeepMind research teams and strategic partners, owning benchmark onboarding, joint evaluations, and complex integrations for Kaggle. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F6d6f76669f791f27&placement=top) - [View posting at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/88371816375952070) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $174K–$232K Above the median Midpoint $203K · median $190K This job $174K to $232K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. [Compare pay across all Google postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/google) ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** software development, including coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages - **3+ years** testing, maintaining, or launching software products - **1+ years** software design and architecture Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 1+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Mountain View, CA · New York, NY. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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You will work in the emerging benchmark ecosystem to onboard external benchmarks to Kaggle. Through collaborative engineering, joint benchmarking, and feedback loops, we run systematic evaluations to accelerate model capability understanding. The Forward Deployed Engineer is the technical bridge between DeepMind’s most strategic partners and our model research teams. This role is embedded in the partner’s engineering journey, building joint evals, unblocking complex integrations, and synthesizing deep technical signals to drive model improvements. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $232000 (USD) + 15% bonus target Learn more about benefits at Google. ### Responsibilities - Own the end to end onboarding of critical new benchmarks to the Kaggle platform. - Drive joint evaluations and benchmarking, build and run systematic evals on partner-specific datasets to deliver high-fidelity performance signals directly to modeling teams. - Author high-visibility case studies, developer blogs, and reference implementations to showcase Gemini's production capabilities. - Build feedback loop tooling, collaborate with product engineering to develop tooling that aggregates and surfaces developer feedback patterns at scale. ### Qualifications ### Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience with software development and experience with coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages. - 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. - Experience with Machine Learning systems or Large Language Models (LLMs). - Experience in a customer-facing role, managing client relationships or external stakeholders. ### Preferred qualifications: - Experience building public benchmarks and evals. - Experience working with developer tools, APIs, SDKs, or platform integration. - Ability to collaborate directly with external customers or partners in a technical capacity. - Ability to work independently with minimal oversight across global time zones. - Excellent technical writing and communication skills, along with the ability to produce documentation, tutorials, or engineering case studies. 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