# Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role: GSK’s Enterprise AI team builds AI solutions that prove value fast and scale to production. The Director, Forward Deployed Engineering leads the FDE function - the front of the Enterprise AI delivery pipeline that proves AI ideas with the business through PoCs, PoVs, MVPs and (where appropriate) first production versions, before handing proven solutions off to the Solutions Engineer for scale-up. The pattern is proven by AI-native companies - Anthropic, Palantir, OpenAI - and this role brings that model to GSK. This Staff role leads the Forward Deployed Engineering function with direct line management of the FDE team (Lead, Senior, and Forward Deployed Engineers, flat reporting structure). The Staff sets FDE strategy and engagement priorities, owns Director-level BU sponsor relationships, and represents Enterprise AI on FDE matters to GSK leadership. The role continues to contribute technically at the frontier of AI-augmented engineering - humans steer, agents execute. Why This Role Exists: Enterprise AI’s ability to build credibility with the business depends on engineers who can land inside BU problems, prove value quickly, and hand off cleanly. The Director, Forw

- **Id**: 3898862
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gsk-staff-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 18
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:47:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7731
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Vaccines, Oncology Therapeutics, Infectious Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 6649
- **Name**: GSK
- **Domain**: gsk.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gsk>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 62
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.694
- **Repost share**: 0.016
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 18
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T23:59:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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