Agentic and AI architects (multiple specialisations)

Shape the future of industrial AI by architecting scalable, governed, and integrated agentic systems, ensuring responsible innovation in high-stakes environments.

Relevant experiences

• Senior architecture experience in enterprise environments, with strong technical depth.

• Demonstrated ability to move from architectural vision to landed, adopted patterns.

• Comfort with ambiguity – you design systems in environments where the requirements keep evolving.

• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to bring engineers and executives along with you.

• Opinionated but collaborative – you have views and hold them, but you build consensus.

• Fluency in English

Nice to Have

• Mentorship and team development, raising the bar for those around you.

• Ability to communicate complex probabilistic concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Recognised research contributions (e.g., publications, open source projects, invited talks).

• Experience setting evaluation standards across multi-team organizations.

• Background in industrial, energy, or similarly consequential domains.

• Proficiency in Norwegian or other Scandinavian languages.

About the roles

We are building the architectural spine for scaling agentic AI across the enterprise.

These are senior and principal architecture roles that shape how AI, data, and integration work together – defining patterns, enforcing governance through design, and ensuring our AI systems are reusable, safe, and aligned with Aker BP’s "AI-native E&P" strategy.

You will define and evolve architectural patterns, partner with delivery pods to land these patterns into real systems, and establish governance-by-design with policy-as-code. A crucial part of your role will be mentoring architects and senior engineers, raising the bar for architectural practice, and designing agent architectures that account for model uncertainty in high-stakes industrial operations.

Why these roles exist

Aker BP is building the foundation for agentic AI at scale. We are doing this as one operating model; strategy, architecture, science, data, safety, and delivery designed to work together, not as separate teams. This role is part of that build.

We are moving AI into the core of industrial operations, work that spans physical assets, regulated environments, and decisions that affect production, safety, and the broader energy system. We work cross-disciplinarily, with a focus on shipping into production rather than running experiments indefinitely.

Agentic and AI architects – multiple specialisations

Apply for different tracks.

We assess candidates against a shared senior-architect profile and match specialisation based on strengths. Candidates are welcome to indicate a preferred track or remain open to placement.

Track 1: Principal AI architect

Define the north-star agentic architecture: the agentic layer, pattern governance, and how agents integrate into the enterprise stack. Own the architectural framework that all agentic systems are built within. This is the most senior architecture role in the AI programme.

Core expertise

• Hands-on experience with agentic patterns, LLM-based systems, or multi-agent architectures.

• Deep understanding of how uncertainty in LLM outputs propagates through multi-agent pipelines and shapes architectural constraints on autonomous action scope.

Nice-to-have

• Demonstrated ability to design the transition from 'Human-in-the-loop' to 'Human-on-the-loop,' solving for non-deterministic outputs in high-stakes engineering environments.

Track 2: Senior/Principal enterprise architect – Architecture enablement and policy-as-code

Build governed-by-design infrastructure: policy-as-code for agent authorisation, audit trails, pattern catalogues, and automated compliance checking. Turn governance into executable code rather than documents. Knowledge-graph architecture is part of the scope.

Core expertise

• Hands-on experience with OPA/Rego, Cedar, or similar policy engines. Solid understanding of Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF/SPARQL) for governance and audit trails

Nice-to-have

• Proven ability to translate complex regulations (like the EU AI Act) into automated CI/CD gating

Track 3: Senior/Principal integration / API architect

Shape and govern the Integration Platform architecture, ensuring APIs, events, and data flows are designed as first-class, reusable products aligned with the North Star Architecture. Drive the transition toward an AI-native, event-driven, policy-governed integration layer.

Core expertise

• Expertise in event-driven architecture (EDA), API product management, and real-time data accessibility in complex industrial environments

Nice-to-have

• Ability to evolve APIs into tool-sets for agents, defining how AI models discover, understand, and interact with physical asset data (Digital Twins).

What we offer

• Professional development
  We are committed to providing you with varied experience and enhancing your expertise, helping you build a strong CV for the future.

• Competitive compensation
  We offer a competitive salary, an opportunity to earn bonuses, a share savings programme, and a solid pension scheme.

• Work-life balance
  We value good health and work-life balance, offering good cafeterias, work-out facilities, and flexibility in working hours and location.

• Employee well-being
  We ensure you get support from our company health service and insurance programmes should anything happen.

• Diverse & inclusive environment
  We are convinced diversity is important for success, and everyone should feel involved, included, and respected.

• Accessible workplace
  Our offices are designed to be universally accessible for all.

Our culture & vision

• SAFER values
  Our foundation is built on being Seekers, Accountable, Foreseeable, Engaged, and Respectful in everything we do.

• AI-first mindset
  We are an AI-first company, committed to leading our industry in AI adoption and unlocking its transformative power.

• ONETEAM culture
  Cooperation is at our core; working with us means being part of our collaborative 'ONETEAM' culture.

• Safety priority
  We put safety first in all operations and expect the same commitment from every team member.

Application process

Background checks will be performed, following consent from relevant candidates. We ask that you enclose your diploma/grade transcript with your application. Furthermore, an assessment of affiliation to high-risk countries is carried out as part of the recruitment process for all positions in Aker BP.

Our ambition is clear: to become the world’s first AI‑native exploration and production company.

We're hiring to accelerate our journey towards becoming the first AI-native E&P company.

We didn't discover AI last year. For a decade, we've been building the data foundation and interoperable ecosystem that now lets us scale AI across some of the most complex operations in our industry. 

Our ambition is simple to state and hard to deliver: a 3x productivity improvement. Getting there demands more than incremental gains,  it requires a fundamental redesign of how work gets done. You get there by redesigning how decisions are made, how work is planned, and how assets are run, with AI agents as native participants in the operating model. And that's why we're looking for ambitious, driven AI professionals who want to help rewrite how a large industrial company operates.

If that sounds like your kind of problem, we'd like to meet you.

Aker BP uses AI-assisted review as part of the recruitment process. AI is used to structure and summarise information – all decisions are made by people.