Lead, Enterprise AI - Forward-Deployed Engineer

Glaxosmithkline; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 342,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK's Enterprise AI team seeks a senior technical leader to guide Forward Deployed Engineering across the enterprise, setting the standards for AI-native development, governance, and scale. In this role you will lead Staff and Senior FDEs, own delivery outcomes for strategic units, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at the frontier of AI-augmented engineering.

You will collaborate with enterprise architecture, data platforms, cyber security, and business leaders to shape roadmaps and

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software and AI/ML, with principal-level leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven track record of setting engineering standards, reference architectures, or platforms adopted enterprise-wide.
• Experience delivering AI to production at scale in customer-facing or embedded engineering roles.
• Understanding of GenAI patterns, agents, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, prompt engineering, and MCP integrations.
• Hands-on experience coding with AI agents and building agentic delivery-automation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise-level development standards for AI solutions across GSK - reference architectures, agentic delivery-automation workflows, delivery bot meshes, evaluation frameworks, and handoff hygiene - adopted by FDE, Solutions Engineering, and Operations Engineering alike.
• Set the enterprise technical direction for AI-native engineering, establishing how agentic workflows and delivery bot meshes are designed, secured, monitored, and reused at scale.
• Own the enterprise pattern library and reference platform, ensuring reusable agents, prompt templates, MCP integrations, and reference architectures are adopted without rework.
• Chair FDE technical design reviews and contribute to Enterprise AI architecture governance, approving or redirecting high-impact decisions.
• Own FDE delivery for a defined portfolio of strategic business units - engagement pipeline, prioritization, quality, and outcomes from intake to handoff.
• Lead the most complex engagements personally, staying hands-on in problem framing, architecture, and prototype delivery.
• Lead multi-FDE engagement teams across concurrent engagements within assigned business units.
• Partner with Director and VP-level leaders to shape AI roadmaps, qualifying high-value use cases, and kill/continue decisions with multi-year impact.
• Act as the technical authority for the FDE function on architecture, ML, data science, and agentic engineering.
• Mentor Staff and Senior FDEs, shaping technical career paths and raising the technical bar.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Software engineering

Technical leadership

GenAI patterns

Agents orchestration

MCP integrations

AI coding agents

Enterprise AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Databricks AI Assistant

Job description

GSK's Enterprise AI team seeks a senior technical leader to guide Forward Deployed Engineering across the enterprise, setting the standards for AI-native development, governance, and scale. In this role you will lead Staff and Senior FDEs, own delivery outcomes for strategic units, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at the frontier of AI-augmented engineering.

You will collaborate with enterprise architecture, data platforms, cyber security, and business leaders to shape roadmaps and