Coherent Corp. · 1 week ago
Head of Enterprise AI
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expCoherent Corp. is a global leader in lasers and engineered materials, and they are seeking a Head of Enterprise AI to lead the enterprise GenAI strategy and solution development. The role involves overseeing AI/ML solutions, integrating generative AI into business workflows, and ensuring AI governance and risk management across the organization.
Responsibilities
Lead the enterprise GenAI strategy and multi-year roadmap; bring sustainable methodologies (evals, safety, cost/perf, lifecycle)
Design, prototype, and ship AI agents/RAG/search, document automation, knowledge assistants, and workflow copilots tied to measurable outcomes
Pressure-test external solutions for explainability, sustainability, and model-evolution roadmaps; recommend build vs. buy
Partner with IT on platform choice and reference architectures (vector DB, policy/guardrails, observability, prompt/eval stores); guide design for internally built solutions
Assist business owners with AI procurement—lead technical due diligence, security/compliance feasibility, and integration planning with commercial and IT
Oversee the architecture, design, and deployment of AI/ML solutions across the enterprise with emphasis on:
Deep learning (CNNs, RNNs, transformers, attention-based architectures)
Generative AI and LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure/OpenAI Service, Hugging Face)
Predictive and prescriptive analytics (time series forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization)
Computer vision and NLP for enterprise use cases (quality inspection, document intelligence, conversational AI)
Drive enterprise-grade integration of GenAI into business workflows by connecting LLMs to internal knowledge repositories and systems (RAG, agent frameworks, secure APIs)
Build scalable AI infrastructure and pipelines with CI/CD for ML models
Implement monitoring, drift detection, retraining, and explainability frameworks
Leverage cloud AI/ML platforms (Azure ML, AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex AI) for enterprise deployments
Partner with R&D, supply chain, manufacturing, customer operations, and IT to embed AI into core business systems and products
Ensure availability of high-quality, governed data pipelines (ETL/ELT, feature stores, vector databases)
Familiarity with modern data stack tools (Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka)
Strong grounding in data security, privacy, and compliance requirements (GDPR, CCPA, ITAR, CMMC, AI ethics frameworks)
Chair the AI Governance Council; define decision rights, guardrails, and approval workflows
Establish model/tool approval, DPIA/PIA, data classification/retention, export-control checks, human-in-the-loop, and audit logging
Maintain the AI/LLM registry, model cards, usage monitoring, red-team testing, and incident playbooks
Work with Business Groups to plan cross-functional use cases; act as commercial’s POC for AI policy & governance
Bring industry best practices in DS/AI for commercial/manufacturing use cases; collaborate with business groups on training, tools, and reusable patterns
Serve as secondary POC for measurement & optimization—define adoption/ROI metrics, experimentation plans, and continuous improvement
Integrate AI with enterprise systems via REST APIs, events, ETL/ELT (Oracle EBS, Salesforce, MES/Opcenter, DWH/Snowflake/Databricks, M365)
Stand up shared platform capabilities: guardrails/safety, evals, observability, cost governance, secrets/keys, identity (SSO/OIDC)
Run pilot → scale playbooks; publish templates (prompts, patterns, SDKs) and manage change with clear success criteria
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's (12+ yrs), Master's (10+ yrs) relevant experience
Proven success deploying GenAI in commercial or enterprise settings and scaling from pilot to production
Hands-on experience building AI agents/RAG with strong Python; practical LLM ops (prompting, evals, guardrails, cost/perf tuning)
Deep enterprise integration experience (REST, webhooks, eventing) and connecting AI to core ERP/CRM/MES/DWH/SaaS platforms
Excellent communicator who simplifies complexity and navigates cross-functional stakeholders (execs → frontline)
Strong analytical mindset—defines success metrics, measures outcomes, and iterates
Preferred
Governance experience: policy frameworks, DPIA/PIA, export controls, data residency (incl. China), model risk
Manufacturing/semiconductor background; familiarity with Oracle EBS, Salesforce, Opcenter/Camstar, ServiceNow, Snowflake/Databricks
Experience evaluating third-party AI (e.g., Microsoft Copilot/Azure OpenAI, Glean/Moveworks, AWS Bedrock) and negotiating vendor SOWs
Change-management frameworks; ability to craft AI literacy and enablement programs
Benefits
Competitive compensation program
Comprehensive career development platform
Company
Coherent Corp.
Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems.
10001+ employees
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