Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

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.

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
• Own relationships with Director and Senior Director-level BU sponsors across business units that bring AI use cases to Enterprise AI
• Take on the most strategic FDE engagements personally — the ones that set precedents for the function

What you need

• 18–30 years in pharma & medical sales
• Machine learning
• Deep learning
• Documentation
• Python
• LLMs
• Git
• PhD or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• Databricks

What you get