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This role will operate at the intersection of business strategy, enterprise architecture, AI engineering, and product execution, helping translate high-value business needs into secure, scalable, reusable technical solutions.\nThe ideal candidate brings the hands-on technical depth of a forward deployed engineer, the systems thinking of a solution architect, and the stakeholder fluency required to operate across a large, complex global enterprise. This role will partner closely with business teams, IT, data owners, security, enterprise architecture, platform owners, and AI governance groups to identify use cases, shape solution approaches, build prototypes, guide production delivery, and create repeatable patterns that can scale across Thermo Fisher.\nThis is not a traditional advisory-only architecture role. The person in this role must be comfortable moving from ambiguity to action: understanding workflows, scoping opportunities, building or guiding prototypes, making practical architecture tradeoffs, and ensuring solutions are designed for adoption, maintainability, compliance, and enterprise scale.\nLocation: Austin, TX - Remote. Relocation assistance is NOT provided. \nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.\nMust be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.\nPurpose of the Role:\nThermo Fisher has significant opportunity to apply AI, generative AI, automation, agents, and data-driven solutions across business and functional processes. However, many high-value use cases require a bridge between business problem definition and technical execution. This role fills that gap by helping teams move from ideas and pilots to production-ready solutions that fit Thermo Fisher’s architecture, data landscape, security requirements, operating model, and long-term technology strategy.\nThe Forward Deployed Engineer / AI Solution Architect will help ensure that AI solutions are not built as isolated one-off experiments, but as scalable, governed, reusable capabilities that create measurable business value.\nKey Responsibilities:\nUse Case Discovery and Technical Scoping \nPartner with AI transformation team, business and functional stakeholders to deeply understand workflows, pain points, decision processes, data needs, and measurable outcomes. \nTranslate business needs into clear technical opportunities, solution hypotheses, architecture options, and delivery plans. \nAssess use cases for feasibility, business value, data readiness, integration complexity, risk, scalability, and alignment with Thermo Fisher’s AI strategy. \nPartner with AI transformation and business stakeholders to define success metrics for AI solutions, including adoption, productivity impact, workflow improvement, quality, cycle time, cost reduction, risk reduction, or improved user experience. \nHelp prioritize AI opportunities based on value, complexity, reusability, and enterprise applicability. \nSolution Architecture and Design:\nDesign scalable AI solution architectures that align with Thermo Fisher’s enterprise architecture, security standards, data governance, integration patterns, and platform strategy. \nCreate end-to-end technical designs covering user experience, AI model or platform selection, data access, APIs, orchestration, integrations, security controls, human-in-the-loop processes, monitoring, and support model. \nEnsure solutions are designed for reuse across teams, functions, and business groups where possible. \nPartner with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data architecture, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to ensure solutions fit within Thermo Fisher’s technical ecosystem. \nIdentify when to use existing enterprise platforms, when to extend current capabilities, and when a new pattern or capability is required. \nPrototyping, Build, and Production Deployment:\nLead or directly contribute to rapid prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and minimum viable solutions that demonstrate business value. \nWork hands-on with AI tools, APIs, automation platforms, enterprise systems, and data sources to validate solution approaches. \nPartner with engineering and delivery teams to move successful prototypes into production-ready solutions. \nGuide teams through technical tradeoffs across speed, scalability, cost, reliability, user experience, and governance. \nEnsure production solutions include appropriate documentation, monitoring, ownership, support model, risk controls, and measurement approach. \nAI, Agent, and Generative AI Enablement:\nSupport the design and deployment of AI agents, GPTs, copilots, workflow assistants, automation patterns, and AI-enabled applications. \nHelp define reusable patterns for common AI solution types, such as knowledge assistants, document processing, workflow automation, decision support, data analysis, software development support, and agentic process execution. \nAdvise teams on effective prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, model selection, evaluation, grounding, workflow orchestration, and responsible use. \nPartner with AI governance and platform teams to ensure solutions are compliant, secure, and aligned with enterprise AI standards. \nCreate practical guidance, templates, and playbooks that help teams build AI solutions consistently and responsibly. \nReusable Patterns and Scaling:\nCodify successful solution approaches into reusable reference architectures, design patterns, components, templates, playbooks, and implementation guidance. \nIdentify opportunities to consolidate similar use cases into shared platforms or enterprise capabilities. \nReduce duplication by connecting teams working on similar AI and automation problems. \nCapture lessons learned from pilots and deployments to improve future solution design. \nCreate feedback loops from real-world deployments into enterprise AI platform strategy, governance standards, data strategy, and product roadmaps. \nKey Deliverables:\nReference architectures for priority AI and generative AI solution patterns. \nTechnical scoping documents for high-value AI use cases. \nSolution blueprints that include architecture, data flows, integrations, risk considerations, and implementation approach. \nWorking prototypes or proof-of-concepts for prioritized use cases. \nProduction handoff documentation for engineering, support, governance, and business ownership. \nReusable playbooks, templates, and build patterns for scalable AI delivery. \nRecommendations on platform, vendor, data, and architecture needs based on field experience. \nMeasurement approach for adoption, value realization, and solution performance. \nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. \n5+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, technical deployment, enterprise architecture, AI engineering, data engineering, or a similar technical role. \nExperience designing and delivering complex technical solutions in large enterprise environments. \nHands-on experience with AI, generative AI, machine learning, automation, API-based integrations, or modern application development. \nAbility to write, review, or guide production-quality code using languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or similar. \nExperience with cloud architecture, APIs, identity and access management, data integration, application integration, and enterprise security considerations. \nStrong understanding of how large language models, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, evaluations, and model behavior affect solution design and user experience. \nDemonstrated ability to work with business stakeholders to understand workflows, define requirements, and translate needs into technical solutions. \nStrong communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. \nAbility to operate in ambiguity, make sound tradeoffs, and drive work from concept through delivery. \nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience deploying AI or generative AI solutions in a regulated, global, or highly matrixed enterprise environment. \nExperience with ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI APIs, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, agent frameworks, or similar AI platforms. \nExperience with enterprise data platforms, knowledge management systems, document repositories, CRM, ERP, commercial platforms, laboratory systems, supply chain platforms, or other large-scale business systems. \nUnderstanding 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\nHands-On Execution: Able to move beyond strategy and architecture by building prototypes, validating assumptions, and helping teams get to working solutions. \nGovernance and Risk Awareness: Able to design solutions that are secure, compliant, supportable, explainable, and aligned with responsible AI expectations. \nScale Orientation: Able to identify repeatable patterns, reduce duplication, and create reusable assets that help Thermo Fisher move faster across teams. \nSuccess Measures:\nSuccessful deployment of AI-enabled solutions into production with measurable business adoption and impact. \nImproved speed and quality of AI use case scoping, prototyping, and delivery. \nIncreased reuse of architecture patterns, components, and implementation playbooks. \nReduced duplication of AI pilots and one-off solutions across the organization. \nStronger alignment between business use cases, enterprise architecture, data ownership, AI governance, and platform strategy. \nClearer technical 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