Forward Deployed Engineer – AI Factory (Senior Associate to Senior Manager)

About the role

PwC’s AI Factory is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build and operate Generative AI solutions for clients. Working directly with engagement teams, you will translate complex business problems into practical AI products and insights that drive risk‑management and governance outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, deploy and maintain Generative AI models and data analysis pipelines for client engagements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across lines of service to define requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Manage end‑to‑end delivery of AI projects, from design through production and ongoing support.

Required profile

• Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Data Science, Computer Science, Applied Statistics or Mathematics.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with large language models, open‑source AI frameworks, big‑data technologies and machine‑learning pipelines.
• Strong programming expertise in Python and numerical computing.

Required skills

• Python
• Large language models (LLMs)
• Open‑source AI frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain)
• Big‑data platforms (e.g., Spark, Hadoop)
• Machine‑learning and statistical modelling
• Cloud services – Azure, AWS or GCP
• Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, vector databases and prompt engineering
• MLOps and production‑grade model deployment