Physical and Spatial AI Engineer III
About The Position
Deloitte is hiring a Physical & Spatial AI, OT Connectivity Engineer III for its AI & Engineering practice. The role helps clients improve operational efficiency, modernize operational technology (OT) environments, accelerate digital transformation, and create value through digital twin, spatial intelligence, and Physical AI-enabled solutions. Work may support data centers, sports venues, and consumer and retail operations. The engineer will design and modernize connectivity across plant, edge, cloud, and emerging AI environments, creating secure, high-performing network foundations for intelligent industrial operations. The position combines technical implementation with client consulting and collaboration across technical and business stakeholders. The role is available in 41 listed U.S. locations and requires the ability to travel up to 50% on average. Recruiting for this role ends on 11/26/2026.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting network connectivity solutions for OT or industrial environments, demonstrated through completed client or enterprise projects.
- Prior experience in a consulting environment and delivering technical solutions directly to clients.
- Experience designing, implementing, or supporting networks in 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 and clients and industries or sectors served.
Nice To Haves
- Consulting experience, 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.
Responsibilities
- 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, including 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 supporting leading industrial protocols and time-sensitive applications in complex operating environments.
- Use network KPIs, monitoring, assurance, and structured troubleshooting to improve availability, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to deliver practical solutions for manufacturing, energy, industrial, technology, media, and telecommunications organizations.
Benefits
- May be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.
- Broad range of employee benefits.
- Professional development and opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities, and grow through mentorship.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
