Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Business Introduction
GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031 we aim to deliver 40 billion in annual sales leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally.

Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines specialty medicines and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence we strive to develop and launch new groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.


Position Summary
GSKs Enterprise AI team builds AI solutions that prove value fast and scale to production. Forward Deployed Engineering is the front of the Enterprise AI delivery pipeline proving AI ideas with the business through PoCs PoVs MVPs and where appropriate first production versions before handing proven solutions to Solutions Engineering for scale-up bringing to GSK a model proven by AI-native companies such as Anthropic Palantir and OpenAI.

You will lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function with direct line management of the FDE team (Lead Senior and Forward Deployed Engineers in a flat reporting structure) setting FDE strategy and engagement priorities owning Director-level business unit sponsor relationships and representing Enterprise AI on FDE matters to GSK leadership.

Enterprise AIs credibility with the business depends on engineers who can land inside business unit problems prove value quickly and hand off cleanly; you will build and lead the function that makes this happen. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who keeps their judgment grounded in current AI engineering reality: continuing to contribute technically on the most strategic engagements at the frontier of AI-augmented engineering while building a team that delivers at pace and grows toward greater seniority. Humans steer; agents execute.

Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function owning strategy structure hiring development and standards with a clear engagement pipeline that delivers at pace.

• Hire mentor and develop the FDE team creating development paths from G8 through to G5 with clear milestones and active coaching.

• Set the standards for AI-native engineering practice within the function agentic delivery-automation workflows delivery bot meshes prompt and pattern libraries and handoff hygiene documented and actively used by the team.

• Set the bar for AI ML and data science rigor across the function including evaluation standards experimental design and model validation acting as the final technical authority on modeling approach for strategic engagements.

• Own relationships with Director and Senior Director-level business unit sponsors bringing AI use cases to Enterprise AI and sustaining engagement through the delivery cycle as a credible high-value partner rather than a vendor.

• Take on the most strategic FDE engagements personally staying hands-on on the engagements that set precedents for the function.

• Make and defend portfolio-level kill/continue decisions across FDE engagements with business unit and Enterprise AI leadership translating AI engineering possibility into business outcomes.

• Track the frontier of AI/ML research and translate advances into practical guidance for the team.

• Coordinate with Solutions Engineering and Operations Engineering on the delivery pipeline and represent FDE in Enterprise AI leadership forums.

• Influence vendor strategy and tooling choices for AI-native engineering practice within Enterprise AI.

• Build governance in by design ensuring the FDE function operates within Code Orange Responsible AI and Accountability Report governance from the prototype stage onward not bolted on afterward.

• Report to Enterprise AI leadership on FDE function performance engagement pipeline outcomes team development and capacity.

Why You

Basic Qualification

We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals

• 12 or more years of experience in software engineering and AI/ML engineering with significant time leading senior engineering teams or functions.

• Bachelors degree in computer science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven track record of taking AI ideas from sketch to working software at speed in customer-facing engineering roles.

• Strong technical depth in GenAI patterns including agents multi-agent orchestration RAG and evaluation.

• Recognized expertise in AI ML and data science classical ML deep learning LLMs and foundation models statistical and causal inference and MLOps at scale with the credibility to evaluate and challenge modeling decisions across a portfolio of engagements.

• Demonstrated daily use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code GitHub Copilot or Databricks AI Assistant as the primary mode of development going beyond vibe coding with experience designing agentic delivery-automation workflows and delivery bot meshes and setting standards for their use across a team.

• Experience hiring mentoring and developing senior engineering talent and building an engineering functions structure standards culture and ways of working.

• Track record of representing engineering functions to senior business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualification

If you have the following characteristics it would be a plus

• Prior leadership experience at an AI-native company (Anthropic Palantir OpenAI or similar) such as Head of Forward Deployed Engineering Director of Solutions or equivalent.

• Masters degree in computer science or a related field.

• Experience in regulated industries (pharma healthcare financial services).
• Experience setting AI engineering standards at organizational

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Why GSK

Uniting science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade as a successful growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make so were committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how together we deliver for patients shareholders and our people.

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