Staff/Director, Forward Deployed Engineer

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.

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.

What you'll do:

• Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function — 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 — agent workflows, prompt and pattern libraries, handoff hygiene.

Full details and application on the official GSK careers page.