AI Lead , Autonomous

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This Position reports to: R&D Leader(Industrial Software)-AUEN BL

What we believe in ABB’s Process Automation business area enables customers to operate some of the world’s largest and most complex industrial infrastructures, helping them outrun – leaner and cleaner. We offer a broad range of automation, electrification and digital solutions for process, hybrid and maritime industries, including industry-specific integrated control and software as well as measurement and analytics solutions and services.

Your role and responsibilities In this role, we are looking for a highly experienced and hands-on AI Lead – Autonomous to join our Industrial Automation Digital Organization. The role will be responsible for driving the Autonomous Framework as a program and translating prioritized AI use cases into delivered, validated outcomes. The candidate will directly contribute to AI solution design, prototyping and delivery while providing technical leadership across Generative AI, Agentic AI and Classical Machine Learning for industrial applications. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, requiring strong execution discipline, stakeholder management and the ability to drive outcomes across product, platform, architecture, technology partners and pilot customers. The role will also contribute to AI-led margin acceleration initiatives and provide delivery and feasibility inputs into AI use-case prioritization. As the organization scales, the role will have an opportunity to build and lead a team of AI engineers. The work model for the role is: Hybrid