Principal Consultant, Industrial Agentic AI

Job Description

Are you motivated by shaping how industrial organizations adopt and scale Agentic AI in real‑world environments?
Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy and execution, helping customers move from emerging AI concepts to robust, production‑ready solutions that transform how industrial software and systems are built and operated?

Etteplan is strengthening its Advisory Services capabilities and is now looking for a Principal Consultant, Industrial Agentic AI to join our newly established Advisory team within Software and Embedded Solutions (SES).

In this role, you will take a leading, SES‑level responsibility for Agentic AI, helping customers and internal teams translate ambition into concrete, scalable outcomes across industrial software, embedded systems, and connected products.

Your role

As a Principal Consultant, Industrial Agentic AI, you operate at the intersection of industrial domain understanding, advanced AI architectures, and software & embedded engineering practices. You lead early‑phase engagements, helping customers frame complex challenges, assess feasibility and maturity, and define clear directions for adopting Agentic AI in industrial contexts.

You act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring continuity from advisory work into implementation and delivery. In parallel, you play a key role in building and scaling Etteplan’s internal Agentic AI capabilities, acting as a role model and technical leader across Advisory Services and Business Units.

Your main responsibilities include

• Leading early‑phase client engagements related to Agentic AI, including discovery, framing, feasibility assessment, and direction‑setting in industrial environments.
• Advising customers on Agentic AI adoption, focusing on robustness, scalability, safety, and value creation in real production systems.
• Translating industrial challenges into clear agent‑based AI problem statements, architectures, and roadmaps.
• Supporting sales and pre‑sales by providing insight, credibility, and technical leadership in strategic customer discussions.
• Ensuring continuity from advisory work into implementation, collaborating closely with delivery teams and architects.
• Contributing to the development and refinement of Etteplan’s Agentic AI offerings, methods, and best practices.
• Acting as a capability builder and mentor, helping develop lead engineers and architects across Business Units.
• Driving an AI‑first mindset in how software and embedded systems are designed, developed, and maintained in industrial contexts.

What you bring

• Advisory & consulting capabilities
• Strong ability to bridge strategy and execution in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Experience leading client‑facing advisory engagements and building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Clear, structured communicator able to operate across executive, architectural, and engineering levels.
• Outcome‑driven mindset with focus on measurable business and operational impact.
• Agentic AI & technology expertise
• Deep expertise in Agentic AI concepts and architectures, such as autonomous agents, multi‑agent systems, tool‑using agents, and orchestration patterns.
• Strong understanding of industrial AI requirements, including reliability, observability, safety, and lifecycle management.
• Experience applying AI in industrial software, embedded, edge, or hybrid cloud‑edge environments.
• Solid foundation in modern software engineering and architecture, with understanding of embedded and hardware‑constrained environments.

Experience & background

• Typically 8+ years in consulting, advisory, advanced technology, or other senior client‑facing roles.
• Background in industrial, manufacturing, energy, automotive, defense, or other complex engineering‑driven domains.
• Experience with AI‑enabled transformation initiatives, platform development, or large‑scale software modernization.
• Ability to operate comfortably in international and multi‑disciplinary environments.

Why Etteplan?

At Etteplan, you will work at the forefront of Industrial AI, helping shape how intelligence is embedded into industrial products, systems, and development processes. You will have the opportunity to:

• Take a leading role in defining and scaling Agentic AI within a global engineering company.
• Work with industry‑leading customers on complex, meaningful challenges.
• Influence both customer outcomes and internal capability development.
• Be part of a growing Advisory Services team with strong backing and strategic importance.

Sounds like the right opportunity for you?

Apply through our recruitment system latest by the 31st of March 2026. Please note, we will review applications already during the application period. For additional information please contact Harri Saikkonen (harri.saikkonen@etteplan.com).