Our mission: Axtria is building the pharmaceutical industry's largest Forward Deployment Engineering workforce — 1,000 certified FDEs embedded across the world's leading pharma and life sciences organizations. We are hiring across multiple levels. If you have 8 or more years of engineering, data, and AI experience in pharma or life sciences — and you have shipped production AI, not just built PoCs — we want to talk to you.
POSITION SUMMARY:-
An Axtria Forward Deployment Engineer does not advise from the outside. They deploy forward — directly into a pharma client's workplace, operating on the client's data, within the client's commercial or clinical operations — and build production AI systems that real teams use. The role demands three capabilities simultaneously: the technical depth to architect and build production AI end-to-end, the pharma domain knowledge to understand why the system needs to work the way it does,
and the consulting maturity to operate independently at the client without needing to be managed.
This is not a proof-of-concept role. FDEs scope, build, and ship. The seniority of your level determines the scale and complexity of the engagement you lead; the core mandate — production AI in the client environment — is the same across all levels.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:-
Embedded Client Delivery
Embed directly within pharma client organisations — operating as a trusted technical peer, not a vendor — and own the design, build, and deployment of production AI systems end-to-end on the client's own infrastructure
Lead the technical workstream and direct teams of engineers — Agent Pipeline Engineers and AI-Augmented Engineers — under your architecture and delivery ownership
Hold the technical client relationship at Director, VP, and CDO level: scoping problems, presenting architecture trade-offs, defending design decisions under scrutiny, and tr