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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive expertise in AI and ML engineering, leading teams to develop AI-native engineering practices and standards. Proven ability to translate AI concepts into practical business solutions while mentoring senior engineering talent.
Highest-signal resume keywords
AI Engineering LeadershipGenAI Patterns ExpertiseAI Coding Agents ProficiencyDelivery-Automation Workflow DesignSenior Engineering Team Development
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringAI EngineeringMachine LearningDeep LearningStatistical InferenceCausal InferenceMLOpsModel ValidationExperimental DesignAgentic Delivery Automation
Soft Skills
MentoringCoachingStakeholder EngagementStrategic Decision-MakingTeam Development
Tools & Technologies
Claude CodeGitHub CopilotDatabricks AI Assistant
Industry Keywords
AI-native EngineeringRegulated IndustriesEnterprise AIDelivery PipelineResponsible AI
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning strategy, structure, hiring, development, and standards
- Hire, mentor, and develop the FDE team with clear progression milestones and active coaching
- Establish AI-native engineering practices, including agentic delivery-automation workflows, delivery bot meshes, prompt and pattern libraries, and handoff standards
- Set standards for AI, ML, and data science rigor, including evaluation, experimental design, and model validation
- Serve as final technical authority on modeling approaches for strategic engagements
- Own relationships with Director and Senior Director-level business unit sponsors
- Lead strategic FDE engagements hands-on and take AI ideas from business problems to PoCs, PoVs, MVPs, and initial production versions
- Make portfolio-level kill/continue decisions and translate AI engineering possibilities into business outcomes
- Track AI/ML research developments and translate advances into practical team guidance
- Coordinate with Solutions Engineering and Operations Engineering on the delivery pipeline
- Represent FDE in Enterprise AI leadership forums
- Influence vendor strategy and tooling choices for AI-native engineering
- Build governance into delivery through Code Orange, Responsible AI, and Accountability Report requirements
- Report FDE function performance, engagement outcomes, team development, and capacity to Enterprise AI leadership
Requirements
What you’ll need- 12 or more years of experience in software engineering and AI/ML engineering, with significant time leading senior engineering teams or functions
- Bachelor's 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, including classical ML, deep learning, LLMs and foundation models, statistical and causal inference, and MLOps at scale
- Demonstrated daily use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Databricks AI Assistant as the primary mode of development
- 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
- Experience building an engineering function's structure, standards, culture, and ways of working
- Track record of representing engineering functions to senior business stakeholders
- Preferred: prior leadership experience at an AI-native company
- Preferred: Master's degree in computer science or a related field
- Preferred: experience in regulated industries
- Preferred: experience setting AI engineering standards at organizational level
Benefits
Comp & perks- Comprehensive benefits program for US employees (details provided via GSK US Benefits Summary)
- Equal Opportunity Employer