Site Forward Deployed Engineer

GlaxoSmithKline; Marietta (PA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline seeks an on-site tech leader to drive AI-enabled manufacturing initiatives at key sites. You will interface with local business teams and global digital product teams to translate opportunities into PoCs, PoVs, and MVPs.

Attend to governance, data privacy, and security while embedding with GSK product teams for scale-up and lifecycle ownership. This role equates to an Associate Director/Senior Manager in scope.

Qualifications

• We are looking for a candidate with a technical degree and 6+ years in technology, AI, or manufacturing.
• Experience delivering AI, Data & Analytics, Smart Manufacturing or Digital transformation initiatives.
• Software engineering experience with modern application development frameworks.
• Experience with Generative AI, AI agents and prompt engineering.
• Proven ability to develop PoCs, PoVs or MVPs and collaborate with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic sites to understand operational challenges and opportunities.
• Translate AI and Digital opportunities into measurable use cases and solutions.
• Design, build and validate PoCs/PoVs/MVPs with real site data and fast delivery.
• Provide hands-on engineering across AI, data, integration, and automation.
• Make evidence-based continue/adapt/stop recommendations based on value and feasibility.
• Ensure compliance with Code Orange, Responsible AI, cybersecurity, privacy, and governance.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Cross-Functional Teamwork

Data Analysis

Design Thinking

DevOps

Prioritization

Product Development Research

Product Roadmapping

Project Management

ROI (Return on Investment)

Software Development

Strategy Deployment

UX

UI Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Data Science / AI / Engineering / IT / Manufacturing Systems or related

Tools

Python

Azure

Job description

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 centred 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.

Job Purpose

New strategic role established to provide on-site technology leadership, product engagement, and delivery support at key manufacturing sites while acting as the interface between local business stakeholders and global digital product teams.

Embed directly with GSC site and business teams to rapidly translate high-priority Smart Manufacturing and AI opportunities into working PoCs, PoVs, and MVPs. Apply AI-native engineering methods to validate business value, technical feasibility, and governance requirements, provide evidence-based kill or continue recommendations, and hand proven solutions to the respective product teams for production scale-up and lifecycle management.

This role is equivalent in scope and seniority to an Associate Director or Senior Manager position.

Key responsibilities

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

• Embed with strategic GSC sites and business teams to understand operational challenges, workflows, data, constraints, and high-value opportunities.
• Translate priority Smart Manufacturing, AI, Data and Digital opportunities into clearly framed, measurable use cases and executable technical solutions.
• Design, build and validate working PoCs, PoVs and MVPs using real site data, systems and workflows, with delivery measured in days or weeks rather than extended discovery cycles.
• Provide hands-on engineering across AI, data, integration, applications and automation, using AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows where appropriate.
• Make evidence-based continue, adapt or stop recommendations based on demonstrated business value, technical feasibility, adoption potential, risk and scalability.
• Incorporate GSK requirements for Code Orange, Responsible AI, cybersecurity, data governance, privacy, GxP and architecture governance from the start of each engagement.
• Partner with the respective GSK & GSC product teams to transition validated solutions for industrialization, scaling, operational support and lifecycle ownership.
• Resolve deployment barriers across legacy systems, fragmented data, integration, security, compliance and local operating processes in collaboration with site and product teams.
• Convert site-specific learning into reusable agents, integration patterns, prompt templates, reference architectures and product requirements that benefit other GSC strategic sites.
• Build site capability through collaborative delivery, technical coaching, documentation and knowledge transfer, while providing structured feedback to GSK & GSC product and platform roadmaps.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

We are looking for professionals with the following required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Information Technology, Manufacturing Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• 6+ years of job-related experience in technology, engineering, data, AI, digital, or manufacturing environments.
• Experience delivering AI, Data & Analytics, Smart Manufacturing, or Digital transformation initiatives within manufacturing or supply chain environments.
• Software engineering experience using modern application development frameworks.
• Experience with Generative AI, AI agents, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or AI‑assisted development approaches.
• Experience developing proofs of concept (PoCs), proofs of value (PoVs), or minimum viable products (MVPs).
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to identify, shape, and deliver technology solutions.
• Experience working across cross‑functional product, data, engineering, or business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Manufacturing Informatics, Digital Transformation, Technology Management, or a related discipline.
• Proficiency in Python or another relevant programming language.
• Knowledge of manufacturing operations, business processes, and operational technology environments.
• Knowledge of Responsible AI, cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, and GxP‑regulated environments.
• Cloud platform and modern data platform experience, including Azure.

Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Cross-Functional Teamwork
• Data Analysis
• Design Thinking
• DevOps
• Prioritization
• Product Development Research
• Product Roadmapping
• Project Management
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Software Development
• Strategy Deployment
• User Experience (UX)
• User Interface (UI) Design

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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 we're 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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