AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.
Position: Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, AI
Location:All EMEA
Employment Type:Full-time
The job
We are hiring a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, AI to join our team. This hands-on leader will drive the development and deployment of AI solutions while bridging the gap between AI technologies exploration and real-world applications, ensuring solutions are practical, scalable, and impactful.
Key Responsibilities
1. Provide industrial domain expertise to guide AI tool, platform, and roadmap decisions and development
2. Work directly with internal and external customers in a consultative, problem-solving manner to gather feedback and refine solutions
3. Drive investigations into the application of advanced AI capabilities to industrial problems.
4. Identify and define industrial use cases for AI applications
5. Develop AI-enabled demos, prototypes, and proof-of-value solutions for industrial problems
6. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI capabilities into industrial software systems and implement AI solutions
7. Evaluate the performance and impact of AI models in operational environments
8. Support and mentor junior team members
Essential Requirements
9. 12+ years of experience inAI/ML engineering,applied AI, orAI technical product management with at least4 years in a customer-facing, technical lead position
10. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Industrial Systems, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred
11. Exceptional industrial domain understanding (life sciences,manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, asset-intensive industries, material science, etc.)
12. Recent experience with modern AI paradigmssuch as:world models, foundation models, and multi-modal language models; agent-based systems and orchestration; and context retrieval and augmentation techniques
13. Customer-focused, pragmatic, and results-oriented with experience leading cross-functional technical projects or customer engagements
14. Demonstrated hands-on experience deploying or integrating AI/ML solutions into real-world industrial environments
15. Ability to identify emerging opportunities for AI in industrial applications
16. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to embed closely with customer teams and collaborate internally across engineering, product, and commercial teams
Desired skills and competencies
17. Experience working across on-prem, edge, and cloud-connected architectures
18. Experience in responsible deployment practices, model drift mitigation, privacy-preserving federating learning, and AI governance best practices
19. Industrial data literacy (time series, SCADA, 3-D models) and experience working with non-ideal, real-world data
20. Prior work in environments transitioning from traditional on-prem systems to AI-enabled or hybrid architectures
21. Experience operating within regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g.energy, safety-critical systems, data privacy)
22. Experience mentoring or guiding less-experienced engineers
What success looks like
23. AI solutions are successfully applied to real industrial problems, not just conceptual designs
24. Prototypes and deployments demonstrate practical feasibility and measurable impact
25. Codified learnings, insights and architectural patterns into references, guides, playbooks, or building blocks that are digestible and actionable for others
26. Industrial constraints (latency, security, compliance, reliability) are addressed through solid engineering decisions
27. Strong collaboration in a matrix / incubation environment, contributing as a senior technical practitioner
28. Feedback from field deployments meaningfully influences AI platform and product direction
UK Benefits include:
Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.
It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.
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Hybrid working
By default, employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week, but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.
Hiring process
Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.
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About AVEVA
AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.
We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/
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