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# Director, Global Forward Deployed AI Programs

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Johnson & Johnson posts a director FDE role to lead deployment teams in Raritan, NJ and 1 more, at $164,000–$282,900 base. Build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering capability across global and regional teams.

- [Johnson & Johnson](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/johnson-johnson)

First seen Oct 22, 2026

**$164,000–$282,900** Raritan, NJ +1

Build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering capability across global and regional teams.

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## At a glance

### The work

Leads the deployment team

Balance **Mixed**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations

Travel **Up to 25%**

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: Both

- **Level**: Staff+

- **Role**: People manager

### What they ask for

Experience

- **7+ years** software engineering, ML/AI engineering, solutions architecture, or technical client-facing role
- **5+ years** people management leading engineers in delivery, services, or embedded/Forward Deployed Engineering organization

Background

- **Software engineering**
- **Solutions and customer engineering**
- **Implementation and data engineering**
- **Forward deployed engineering**

Tools

- **generative AI**
- **agentic AI**
- **LLM**
- **RAG**
- **Salesforce**
- **Engagement.ai**
- **Connext**
- **CI/CD**
- **LLM-as-judge**

## Conditions

- **Location**: Raritan, NJ · Horsham, PA

- **Travel**: Up to 25%

- **Pay**:

## What you’ll do

- Set technical standards, success metrics, and operating practices for AI engagements and products.
- Review architectures and code, prototype solutions, and debug production systems hands-on.
- Establish agent harness, evaluation, deployment, and observability practices for regulated AI products.
- Coordinate with business, technology, data science, privacy, and compliance teams to scale adoption.

## What you’ll bring

- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years in software engineering, ML/AI engineering, solutions architecture, or technical client-facing roles.
- 5+ years managing engineers, including hiring, developing, and retaining technical talent.
- Experience building an FDE capability from scratch and shipping production LLM applications and AI agents.

## About Johnson & Johnson

Develops and commercializes prescription medicines and medtech across oncology, immunology, neuroscience, cardiovascular, surgery, orthopaedics, and vision for patients and health systems worldwide.

Public · 5000+ people

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