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As the leader of our Applied AI Tech team across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Cristina guides a growing organization with two distinct engineering paths. If you’re looking to apply your skills to real-world AI, understanding the difference can help you find your perfect fit: 🔹 Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs): The hands-on builders who work directly with clients to deeply customize, write the code and physically deploy live generative AI tools into production. 🔹 Customer Engineers: The strategic tech architects who map out and design high-level cloud infrastructures using Google technology to solve complex business problems. To thrive in either role, Cristina shares that developing a very specific type of professional fluency is key: "You need to be multilingual — and I don’t just mean speaking Italian, English and Spanish! You need to speak 'Code,' 'Product' and 'Business. The best engineers and leaders in this space can sit in a room with deeply technical developers to debug a GenAI architecture, and then walk into a boardroom and clearly articulate to a CEO exactly how that architecture will drive revenue." Ready to expand your coding skills into real-world business strategy? Discover your next engineering chapter and explore open Forward Deployed Engineer roles with the Google Cloud team → https://goo.gle/3PUwMWc