Principal - Forward Deployed Engineer

Business Introduction GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges. Position Summary GSK's Enterprise AI team builds AI solutions that prove value fast and scale to production. Forward Deployed Engineering is the front of the Enterprise AI delivery pipeline — proving AI ideas with the business through PoCs, PoVs, MVPs, and, where appropriate, first production versions, before handing proven solutions to Solutions Engineering for scale-up — bringing to GSK a model proven by AI-native companies such as Anthropic, Palantir, and OpenAI. You will act as the most senior technical authority in the FDE function, operating at enterprise scope with two equal mandates: setting the standards for AI-native, enterprise-level development across GSK — architecture, agentic delivery-automation workflows, delivery bot meshes, evaluation, and governance — and owning FDE delivery outcomes for a defined portfolio of strategic business units. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who leads through technical credibility: staying hands-on at the frontier of AI-augmented engineering, leading Staff and Senior FDEs on the most consequential engagements and shaping how AI engineering is done well beyond the FDE team. As Enterprise AI scales, the value of each engagement increasingly depends on what it leaves behind: you will set standards from real delivery experience, prove them inside the business units that matter most, and serve as the escalation point for the hardest architecture, ML, and agentic-engineering decisions. Humans steer, agents execute. Responsibilities This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following: • Define and own enterprise-level development standards for AI solutions across GSK — reference architectures, agentic delivery-automation workflows, delivery bot meshes, evaluation frameworks, and handoff hygiene — adopted by FDE, Solutions Engineering, and Operations Engineering alike. • Set the enterprise technical direction for AI-native engineering, going well beyond vibe coding to establish how agentic workflows and delivery bot meshes are designed, secured, monitored, and reused at scale. • Own the enterprise pattern library and reference platform, ensuring reusable agents, prompt templates, MCP integrations, and reference architectures are good enough that teams across GSK adopt them without rework. • Chair FDE technical design review and contribute to Enterprise AI architecture governance, approving, challenging, or redirecting high-impact technical decisions. • Own FDE delivery for a defined portfolio of strategic business units — engagement pipeline, prioritization, quality, and outcomes from intake to clean handoff. • Lead the most complex, precedent-setting engagements personally, staying hands-on in problem framing, architecture, and prototype delivery. • Lead multi-FDE engagement teams, directing Staff, Senior, and Engineer-level FDEs across concurrent engagements within assigned business units. • Partner with Director and VP-level bus