Lead Agentic AI Architect for Energy

1200 Equinor ASA; Bergen; On-site; NOK 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinor is seeking a Principal Agentic AI Expert to define how AI transforms one of Europe’s largest energy companies. You will lead design and real-world deployment of agentic AI solutions across engineers, geoscientists, operators and business teams, collaborating with skilled peers and domain experts.

You will mentor colleagues, evaluate emerging AI techniques, and help shape responsible AI practices, governance, and scalable production systems within a global enterprise.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in operations research, applied mathematics, computer science, data science, control/automation, engineering or related discipline.
• Strong practical experience with generative AI and modern language models.
• Proven ability to build and deploy AI solutions in production environments.
• Expertise in AI agents, RAG, model evaluation, AI engineering, multimodal AI or applied machine learning.
• Strong software engineering skills and willingness to stay hands-on.
• Curiosity, creativity and a passion for making new technology useful.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of advanced agentic AI solutions.
• Explore and apply emerging techniques in AI agents, reasoning systems, orchestration and multimodal AI.
• Work hands-on with large language models, retrieval systems, AI agents and enterprise integrations.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to bring solutions from idea to production.
• Evaluate models, frameworks and architectures, identifying what creates real business value.
• Help establish best practices for scalable, reliable and responsible AI.
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to the growth of Equinor's AI community.
• Represent Equinor in external AI communities, conferences and collaborations when relevant.

Skills

Generative AI

Language models

AI agents

RAG

Model evaluation

AI engineering

Multimodal AI

Software engineering

Hands-on

Education

Master's or PhD in operations research, applied mathematics, computer science, data science, control/automation, engineering or related discipline

Tools

LangGraph

Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF)

CrewAI

Azure AI Foundry/Azure AI services

Job description

Equinor is seeking a Principal Agentic AI Expert to define how AI transforms one of Europe’s largest energy companies. You will lead design and real-world deployment of agentic AI solutions across engineers, geoscientists, operators and business teams, collaborating with skilled peers and domain experts.

You will mentor colleagues, evaluate emerging AI techniques, and help shape responsible AI practices, governance, and scalable production systems within a global enterprise.