Physical and Spatial AI Engineer III

Physical & Spatial AI, OT Connectivity Engineer III

Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals re-imagining and re-engineering operations and environments that are critical to business performance.

The role is focused on helping clients improve operational efficiency, accelerate digital transformation, modernize OT environments, and unlock new value through digital twin, spatial intelligence, and Physical AI-enabled solutions.

We are seeking a candidate with a strong product implementation mindset and experience helping clients apply digital twin and spatial technologies to real-world operational environments. The ideal candidate brings a blend of consulting leadership, industry credibility, technical fluency, and go-to-market vision, with experience aligned to Nvidia and/or Google platform ecosystems for Physical and Spatial AI technologies. This role will be supporting clients in environments such as data centers, sports venues and consumer and retail operations.

Recruiting for this role ends on 11/26/2026.

Work You'll Do

As part of our Physical AI / AI & Engineering group, you will help clients create the secure, high-performing connectivity foundation needed for intelligent industrial operations. Working across plant, edge, cloud, and emerging AI environments, you will solve complex networking challenges and help organizations modernize how their physical operations connect, communicate, and scale.

• Design new industrial networks and modernize existing infrastructure to support connected equipment, cameras, IIoT sensors, automation, and growing data demands.

• Develop segmented, multi-site network solutions using modern routing, switching, remote connectivity, and software-defined networking technologies.

• Enable reliable data movement across OT and IT domains while supporting emerging AI, high-performance, and optical networking use cases.

• Apply network and agentic automation tools to improve deployment, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.

• Use established OT architecture and cybersecurity frameworks to integrate IT and OT environments, reduce risk, and protect critical operations.

• Design connectivity that supports leading industrial protocols and time-sensitive applications across complex operating environments.

• Use network KPIs, monitoring, assurance, and structured troubleshooting to enhance availability, performance, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to deliver practical solutions for manufacturing, energy, industrial, technology, media, and telecommunications organizations.

The Team

Our AI & Engineering practice offers comprehensive solutions for designing, developing, and operating advanced data, AI, and engineering platforms, products, insights, and services. We help clients innovate, enhance, and manage their capabilities so they can grow and scale effectively.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of AI, engineering, operational technology, and industry transformation, helping clients bring together sensing, simulation, decisioning, and enterprise execution in real-world physical environments.

Qualifications

Required* Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or a related field

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting network connectivity solutions for operational technology (OT) or industrial environments, demonstrated through completed client or enterprise projects.

• Prior experience working in a consulting environment and delivering technical solutions directly to clients.

• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting networks in operational technology (OT) or industrial environments.

• Experience with network segmentation, VLANs, routing, firewalls, VPNs, or secure remote connectivity.

• Knowledge of the Purdue Model and IEC 62443 network zoning and segmentation principles.

• Experience with at least one industrial communication protocol, such as PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or OPC UA.

• Experience troubleshooting OT network connectivity and performance issues.

• Experience using network monitoring tools and performance data to maintain reliability, identify issues, and support troubleshooting.

• Experience connecting IIoT devices or integrating network connectivity across OT and IT environments.

• Ability to create clear network designs and technical documentation.

• Ability to communicate technical solutions to architects, clients, and OT and IT stakeholders.

• Ability to travel up to 50% on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve* Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred* Consulting experience strongly preferred, particularly in client-facing strategy, architecture, or transformation delivery roles* Experience in data center, sports venue, consumer, or retail environments

• Experience with multi-site connectivity, site-to-site IPsec, SD-WAN, VRF-lite, or VXLAN-EVPN.

• Experience with network automation tools, such as Ansible, Netmiko, n8n, or LangChain.

• Experience with time-sensitive networking (TSN), AI networking technologies such as InfiniBand or Spectrum-X, or optical transport network (OTN) devices.

• Experience presenting technical designs to an Architecture Review Board or similar governance forum.

• Experience leading a client project or technical workstream and managing milestones, risks, and stakeholder expectations.

• Current certification in a relevant wired, wireless, security, or industrial networking technology.

Wages + Salary

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $ 116,200 to $ 229,100. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.