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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.\nOur Ahead Together strategy is centered 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.\nPosition Summary\nGSK's Enterprise AI team builds AI solutions that prove value fast and scale to production. Forward Deployed Engineering is the front of the Enterprise AI delivery pipeline - proving AI ideas with the business through PoCs, PoVs, MVPs, and, where appropriate, first production versions, before handing proven solutions to Solutions Engineering for scale-up - bringing to GSK a model proven by AI-native companies such as Anthropic, Palantir, and OpenAI.\nYou will lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, with direct line management of the FDE team (Lead, Senior, and Forward Deployed Engineers in a flat reporting structure), setting FDE strategy and engagement priorities, owning Director-level business unit sponsor relationships, and representing Enterprise AI on FDE matters to GSK leadership.\nEnterprise AI's credibility with the business depends on engineers who can land inside business unit problems, prove value quickly, and hand off cleanly; you will build and lead the function that makes this happen. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who keeps their judgment grounded in current AI engineering reality: continuing to contribute technically on the most strategic engagements at the frontier of AI-augmented engineering, while building a team that delivers at pace and grows toward greater seniority. Humans steer; agents execute.\nResponsibilities\nThis role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:\nLead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning strategy, structure, hiring, development, and standards, with a clear engagement pipeline that delivers at pace.\nHire, mentor, and develop the FDE team, creating development paths from G8 through to G5 with clear milestones and active coaching.\nSet the standards for AI-native engineering practice within the function - agentic delivery-automation workflows, delivery bot meshes, prompt and pattern libraries, and handoff hygiene - documented and actively used by the team.\nSet the bar for AI, ML, and data science rigor across the function, including evaluation standards, experimental design, and model validation, acting as the final technical authority on modeling approach for strategic engagements.\nOwn relationships with Director and Senior Director-level business unit sponsors, bringing AI use cases to Enterprise AI and sustaining engagement through the delivery cycle as a credible, high-value partner rather than a vendor.\nTake on the most strategic FDE engagements personally, staying hands-on on the engagements that set precedents for the function.\nMake and defend portfolio-level kill/continue decisions across FDE engagements with business unit and Enterprise AI leadership, translating AI engineering possibility into business outcomes.\nTrack the frontier of AI/ML research and translate advances into practical guidance for the team.\nCoordinate with Solutions Engineering and Operations Engineering on the delivery pipeline and represent FDE in Enterprise AI leadership forums.\nInfluence vendor strategy and tooling choices for AI-native engineering practice within Enterprise AI.\nBuild governance in by design, ensuring the FDE function operates within Code Orange, Responsible AI, and Accountability Report governance from the prototype stage onward, not bolted on afterward.\nReport to Enterprise AI leadership on FDE function performance - engagement pipeline, outcomes, team development, and capacity.\nWhy You?\nBasic Qualification\nWe are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals\n12 or more years of experience in software engineering and AI/ML engineering, with significant time leading senior engineering teams or functions.\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nProven track record of taking AI ideas from sketch to working software at speed in customer-facing engineering roles.\nStrong technical depth in GenAI patterns, including agents, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, and evaluation.\nRecognized expertise in AI, ML, and data science - classical ML, deep learning, LLMs and foundation models, statistical and causal inference, and MLOps at scale - with the credibility to evaluate and challenge modeling decisions across a portfolio of engagements.\nDemonstrated daily use of AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Databricks AI Assistant, as the primary mode of development, going beyond vibe coding, with experience designing agentic delivery-automation workflows and delivery bot meshes and setting standards for their use across a team.\nExperience hiring, mentoring, and developing senior engineering talent, and building an engineering function's structure, standards, culture, and ways of working.\nTrack record of representing engineering functions to senior business stakeholders.\nPreferred Qualification\nIf you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus\nPrior leadership experience at an AI-native company (Anthropic, Palantir, OpenAI, or similar), such as Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, Director of Solutions, or equivalent.\nMaster's degree in computer science or a related field.\nExperience in regulated industries (pharma, healthcare, financial services).\nExperience setting AI engineering standards at organizational\nSkills\nAI Frameworks, Algorithm Optimization, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNS), Computer Programming, Deep Learning, Feature Engineering, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for Machine Learning, Machine Learning Operations, Microsoft Azure Data and AI, ML Frameworks, Model Evaluation, Model Training, Model Validation, Performance Optimizations, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.\nWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK 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.\nPeople 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.\nIf you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the appropriate Recruitment Staff by emailing us at - \nGSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.\nPlease note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. 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