Forward Deployed Engineer - AI & Trading

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 through practical coaching and support.
• Apply responsible AI, security and governance standards throughout development.
• Partner with teams across Product, Technology, Data, Digital Security and AI Governance.
• Share reusable tools, engineering patterns and good practices across our global GLights network.

What you'll bring

We're looking for someone with strong engineering capability who enjoys working closely with users to solve complex commercial problems.

You'll bring:

• Experience in software, data, AI or quantitative engineering.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, cloud services, SQL or data stores, version control, testing and CI/CD.
• Experience taking solutions from early concepts or prototypes through to reliable production use.
• Experience evaluating LLM-based tools: measuring whether outputs are correct, grounding answers in trusted data, and catching failures before users do.
• Understanding of secure engineering, access controls, monitoring and operational resilience.
• Practical experience with generative AI, agentic systems or LLM-based applications.
• Strong Python, plus experience in software, data, AI or quantitative engineering.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across commercial and technical teams.
• An adaptable approach and confidence working in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience in commodities, financial markets, trading or another commercially critical environment would be valuable, but isn't essential.

 

It would also be helpful if you have

• Experience with AWS, containers, infrastructure-as-code or observability tools.
• Familiarity with MCP, event-driven architectures or reusable integration services.
• Knowledge of market data, trading controls, AI governance or information security.
• Experience working with trading, origination, quantitative or front-office teams.
• Experience creating engineering approaches or tools that have been adopted across multiple teams.

 

What success looks like

You'll help GLights turn promising ideas into trusted tools that people use. Success will include:

• Faster delivery of useful AI-enabled capabilities.
• Strong adoption among trading teams.
• Reliable and well-supported production tools.
• Reusable solutions that benefit teams across locations.
• Clear improvements in efficiency, insight or decision support.

Why join us?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

 

Travel Requirement

Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agreements and negotiations, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Commercial Business Development, Consultative selling skills, Continuous Learning, Customer promise execution, Customer service delivery excellence, Deal modelling and valuation, Developing and implementing strategy, Influencing, Internal alignment, Joint Venture Structuring, Listening, Loyalty Management, Marketing strategy and programmes, Negotiating value, Negotiation planning and preparation, Partner relationship management, Presenting, Sentiment and Trends, Thought Leadership, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading Fundamentals {+ 1 more}

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Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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