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For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.\nAbout the role\nSupply, Trading & Shipping (ST&S) connects bp with global traded markets. Within ST&S, Global Lightends (GLights) brings together market expertise, data and technology to create value across physical and financial light-ends markets.\nAs a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work alongside traders and commercial teams to turn ideas into reliable AI-enabled tools.\nYou'll combine hands-on engineering with close user collaboration, rapidly developing solutions and taking successful prototypes through to secure, production-ready capabilities. You'll join a global engineering network across Chicago, Houston, London and Singapore, while providing close support to your regional trading teams.\nWhat you'll bring\nWe're looking for someone with strong engineering capability who enjoys working closely with users to solve complex commercial problems.\nYou'll bring:\nExperience in software, data, AI or quantitative engineering.\nHands-on experience with APIs, cloud services, SQL or data stores, version control, testing and CI/CD.\nExperience taking solutions from early concepts or prototypes through to reliable production use.\nExperience evaluating LLM-based tools: measuring whether outputs are correct, grounding answers in trusted data, and catching failures before users do.\nUnderstanding of secure engineering, access controls, monitoring and operational resilience.\nPractical experience with generative AI, agentic systems or LLM-based applications.\nStrong Python, plus experience in software, data, AI or quantitative engineering.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work across commercial and technical teams.\nAn adaptable approach and confidence working in a fast-moving environment.\nExperience in commodities, financial markets, trading or another commercially critical environment would be valuable, but isn't essential.\nIt would also be helpful if you have\nExperience with AWS, containers, infrastructure-as-code or observability tools.\nFamiliarity with MCP, event-driven architectures or reusable integration services.\nKnowledge of market data, trading controls, AI governance or information security.\nExperience working with trading, origination, quantitative or front-office teams.\nExperience creating engineering approaches or tools that have been adopted across multiple teams.\nWhat success looks like\nYou'll help GLights turn promising ideas into trusted tools that people use. Success will include:\nFaster delivery of useful AI-enabled capabilities.\nStrong adoption among trading teams.\nReliable and well-supported production tools.\nReusable solutions that benefit teams across locations.\nClear improvements in efficiency, insight or decision support.\nWhy join us?\nAt bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.\nWe support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.\nThere are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.\nReinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!\nHow much do we pay (Base)?$167,000.00 - 253,000.00 USD Annually\n*Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. \nThis position is eligible for US Benefits - Core. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 - 240 hours of vacation per year for full time employees . You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at Core U.S. Benefits. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child.\nWe offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits include a pension for eligible employee.\nAs part of bp’s wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Core U.S. Benefits.\nTravel Requirement\nSome travel may be required with this role, this is negotiableRelocation Assistance:\nThis role is not eligible for relocationRemote Type:\nThis position is a hybrid of office/remote workingSkills:\nAgreements and negotiations, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Commercial Business Development, Consultative selling skills, Continuous Learning, Customer promise execution, Customer service delivery excellence, Deal modelling and valuation, Developing and implementing strategy, Influencing, Internal alignment, Joint Venture Structuring, Listening, Loyalty Management, Marketing strategy and programmes, Negotiating value, Negotiation planning and preparation, Partner relationship management, Presenting, Sentiment and Trends, Thought Leadership, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading Fundamentals {+ 1 more}.\n\n Legal Disclaimer:\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. 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