Principal Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Enterprise Impact

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Retirement benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline plc is seeking a Senior Enterprise AI leader to define and own enterprise AI engineering standards across multiple business units. You will be hands-on with frontier AI, guide architecture, and lead large FDE teams to deliver scalable AI solutions.

You will mentor Staff/Senior engineers, shape roadmaps with BU leaders, and ensure governance, security, and scalability across all AI initiatives. Strong MVP-to-production execution is expected.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software/AI/ML engineering experience with principal-level leadership
• Bachelor's degree in CS or software engineering or equivalent
• Proven track record of setting engineering standards and reference architectures
• Experience taking AI ideas to production at speed across multiple teams
• Hands-on experience with GenAI patterns, agents, orchestration, RAG, and MCP integrations
• Enterprise-level AI, ML, data science, and MLOps knowledge for standards
• Experience mentoring Staff and Senior engineers and influencing senior leaders

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-level development standards for AI across GSK
• Set direction for AI-native engineering and scalable delivery
• Own enterprise pattern library, MCP integrations, and reference architectures
• Lead high-impact design reviews and governance for AI solutions
• Own delivery for a portfolio of business units, from intake to handoff
• Lead multi-FDE teams and mentor senior engineers
• Influence BU leaders on AI roadmaps and kill/continue decisions
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Cyber Security to ensure scalable prototypes

Skills

Senior technical leadership

AI/ML engineering

Engineering standards

GenAI patterns

Hands-on AI coding agents

Stakeholder collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering

Master's or PhD in CS/ML (preferred)

Tools

GCP for ML

Microsoft Azure AI

MCP integrations

AI frameworks

Job description

GlaxoSmithKline plc is seeking a Senior Enterprise AI leader to define and own enterprise AI engineering standards across multiple business units. You will be hands-on with frontier AI, guide architecture, and lead large FDE teams to deliver scalable AI solutions.

You will mentor Staff/Senior engineers, shape roadmaps with BU leaders, and ensure governance, security, and scalability across all AI initiatives. Strong MVP-to-production execution is expected.