Principal Consultant, Industrial Agentic AI

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).

As Principal Consultant, you lead the conversations that matter most: the early-stage engagements where industrial clients are trying to frame the problem, understand what’s feasible, and decide on the way forward. You bring your technical depth to create credibility with architects, and the advisory seniority to earn the trust of C-level executives.

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, collaborating closely with delivery teams and architects. 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.
• Contributing to the development and refinement of Etteplan’s Agentic AI offerings, methods, and best practices.
• Build agentic AI capability across Business Units – acting as a mentor and role model for lead engineers and architects
• Driving an AI‑first mindset in how software and embedded systems are designed, developed, and maintained in industrial contexts.

What you bring

You have deep expertise in Agentic AI — autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, orchestration patterns — and you know how those concepts need to be adapted when the environment is industrial: reliability matters, safety is non-negotiable, observability is essential, and the edge cases aren't hypothetical.

But technical depth alone isn't what makes this role work. What sets the right person apart is the ability to use that depth in client conversations — to listen well, ask the questions that unlock what a client actually needs, and translate complexity into clarity without losing precision. Clear, structured communication style and the ability to operate across executive, architectural, and engineering levels, will help navigate in complex, ambiguous industrial environments.

You will thrive here if:

• You find early-stage, ambiguous client engagements energizing
• You are comfortable discussing with senior stakeholders, and have the courage to challenge in a constructive and evidence-based manner
• You think business value first, technology second. An outcome‑driven mindset with focus on measurable business and operational impact is what is needed in this role
• You’ve seen AI initiatives fail in production and know why – and how to help clients avoid it

Experience & background

• 8+ years in consulting, advisory, advanced technology, or other senior client‑facing roles – with direct experience leading engagements with senior stakeholders, not just supporting teams that do it
• Deep expertise in Agentic AI architectures and concepts, with hands-on understanding of how these play out in industrial, embedded, or edge environments
• Demonstrated ability to take complex, ambiguous business and engineering challenges and turn them into structured directions
• 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.
• Solid foundation in modern software engineering and architecture, with understanding of embedded and hardware‑constrained environments.
• Ability to operate comfortably in international and multi‑disciplinary environments.
• Strong understanding of industrial AI requirements, including reliability, observability, safety, and lifecycle management.
• Advisory & consulting capabilities, with strong ability to bridge strategy and execution

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 join a newly established Advisory team with strong strategic backing and leading consultants in the areas of cyber security, data and design.

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.
• Join a collaborative, growing advisory team where your expertise will be valued and trusted!

Preferred locations for this role include Espoo and Tampere in Finland; Stockholm, Linköping, and Gothenburg in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark. The role offers opportunities for international collaboration, and some travel may be required.

Sounds like the right opportunity for you?

Apply through our recruitment system latest by the 21st June 2026. Please note that we will review applications already during the application period. For additional information please contact Nilesh Sakarikar (nilesh.sakarikar@etteplan.com).