# Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

You will lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, with direct line management of the FDE team, setting FDE strategy and engagement priorities, owning Director-level business unit sponsor relationships, and representing Enterprise AI on FDE matters to GSK leadership.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning strategy, structure, hiring, development, and standards

- Hire, mentor, and develop the FDE team, creating development paths from G8 through to G5

- Set the standards for AI-native engineering practice within the function

- Set the bar for AI, ML, and data science rigor across the function

- Own relationships with Director and Senior Director-level business unit sponsors

- Take on the most strategic FDE engagements personally

- Make and defend portfolio-level kill/continue decisions across FDE engagements

- Track the frontier of AI/ML research and translate advances into practical guidance for the team

- Coordinate with Solutions Engineering and Operations Engineering on the delivery pipeline

- Influence vendor strategy and tooling choices for AI-native engineering practice within Enterprise AI

- Build governance in by design, ensuring the FDE function operates within Code Orange, Responsible AI, and Accountability Report governance

- Report to Enterprise AI leadership on FDE function performance

Basic Qualifications:

- 12 or more years of experience in software engineering and AI/ML engineering

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

- Proven track record of taking AI ideas from sketch to working software at speed in customer-facing engineering roles

- Strong technical depth in GenAI patterns

- Recognized expertise in AI, ML, and data science

- Demonstrated daily use of AI coding agents

- Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing senior engineering talent

- Track record of representing engineering functions to senior business stakeholders

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## Skills

### Required
- AI 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)

### Nice to have
- Prior leadership experience at an AI-native company
- Master's degree in computer science or a related field
- Experience in regulated industries
- Experience setting AI engineering standards at organizational level

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