VP of AI Engineering

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: VP - R&D – AI Core Services Development
Location: Cambridge, London, UK (Hybrid)
Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are searching for an accomplished Software Development Leader to build and lead the development of core AI Services for our Industrial Intelligence Software Platform.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering secure, reliable, highly available, and scalable platform services that will serve as foundational building blocks for AI capabilities across AVEVA's product portfolio and partner ecosystem.

These services will power intelligent industrial solutions at global scale.

You will lead a talented team of engineers to architect, build, and evolve distributed cloud-native services and public APIs that enable democratized access to AI capabilities, accelerating innovation and adoption across domains, technology teams, and external partners.

We are specifically keen on individuals who have experience within start-up type environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Services Development

• Drive the Execution, Design, and Build of Core AI services that are scalable, reusable, secure, reliable, and highly available.
• Ensure the Core AI Services (Orchestration, SDKs, etc.) are extensible and allows contribution on a federated model to accelerate scalability within AVEVA.
• Ensure Core AI services are sustainable and follow best practices for validation, continuous, delivery, disaster recovery, etc.

Democratization & Adoption

• Drive adoption and reuse of core AI services by AVEVA product and capability teams
• Enable self-service access, reference implementations, and integration toolkits to lower the barrier to entry.
• Engage with other execution leaders and collaborate with enablement teams to support Core AI adoption.

Security, Compliance & Regulations

• Embed security and privacy-by-design practices into all services and APIs.
• Ensure compliance with global AI regulations and emerging governance frameworks.
• Establish processes for responsible AI, model explainability, observability, and auditability.

AI & Cloud Expertise

• Provide strong execution leadership in AI and cloud-native software development
• Guide the use of modern AI frameworks, data pipelines, inference engines, and orchestration platforms.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Architects and to translate industrial AI use cases into services capabilities.

Team Leadership & Execution

• Build and lead a high-performing, cross-functional development team with a strong culture of engineering excellence.
• Foster a builder mindset within the team — encouraging rapid prototyping and continuous improvement with agility of a start-up
• Foster a collaborative environment across geographies, time zones, and technical disciplines.

Core Skills and Qualifications:

• 20+ years of experience in software product development, with 10+ years in leadership roles focused on development of cloud-native platforms or AI services
• Proven experience building distributed, secure, and scalable cloud/AI services (ideally on Microsoft Azure) which accelerate value delivery to customers
• Solid background in AI/ML technologies, including experience in AI models and tools
• Strong knowledge of public API design and service lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with the latest AI standards including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A)
• Familiarity with AI regulations (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF) and responsible AI principles.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and communication skills.

What Success Looks Like:

• Scalability, Reliability, Availability, and Security of core AI services in production.
• Adoption of services by internal product/capability teams and external partners.
• Developer experience and ease-of-use of AI Services APIs.
• Compliance with applicable AI governance and regulatory requirements.
• Engagement and growth of the core AI services team.

R&D at AVEVA 

Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the centre of our strategy, and we have over 150 patents to our name.

Our track record of innovation is no fluke – it's the result of a structured and deliberate focus on learning, collaboration and inclusivity. If you want to build applications that solve big problems, join us.

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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-

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AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check.  Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.  AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.