Forward Deployed Engineer - AI & Trading

About this role

Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:

Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Trading

Locations: Houston | London | Singapore

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role

Supply, Trading & Shipping (ST&S) connects bp with global traded markets. Within ST&S, Global Lightends (GLights) brings together market expertise, data and technology to create value across physical and financial light-ends markets.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work alongside traders and commercial teams to turn ideas into reliable AI-enabled tools. You'll combine hands-on engineering with close user collaboration, rapidly developing solutions and taking successful prototypes through to secure, production-ready capabilities.

You'll join a global engineering network across Chicago, Houston, London and Singapore, while providing close support to your regional trading teams.

What you'll do

• Work closely with traders and originators to understand workflows, challenges and opportunities where AI can add value.
• Build AI-enabled skills, agents, workflows and decision-support tools.
• Turn prototypes into secure, tested and maintainable production solutions.
• Develop integrations with approved trading, market data, analytics and operational data sources.
• Monitor solution performance and provide application support during trading hours.
• Troubleshoot issues, support incident resolution and improve solutions based on what you learn.
• Help users build confidently with approved AI tools throu...