FormFactor

FormFactor

IT Principal Technical Lead, AI & Automation

Remote, TX · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
LLMsA/B TestingSupply ChainAR/VRLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • Semiconductor companies rely upon FormFactor's products and services to accelerate profitability by optimizing device performance and advancing yield knowledge.
  • Shift: The regular hours for this position are day shift.
  • Success requires balancing innovation with pragmatism and delivering measurable business outcomes through secure, scalable, and maintainable AI-enabled solution.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and evolve the enterprise AI strategy, standards, governance frameworks, and usage policies to enable responsible, secure, and scalable adoption of AI technologies.
  • Partner with business leaders across Design, Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and other functions to identify, evaluate, and prioritize high-value AI and automation opportunities.
  • Lead the evaluation, selection, implementation, and lifecycle management of AI platforms, tools, and services, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise technology standards.
  • Drive the delivery of AI and automation solutions from concept through production, leading cross-functional teams to solve business problems and deliver measurable value.
  • Collaborate with enterprise application, data, infrastructure, and security teams to integrate AI capabilities into existing business processes, systems, and workflows.
  • Mentor technical staff and help build organizational AI capabilities through coaching, knowledge sharing, and development of internal best practices.
  • AI initiatives deliver measurable improvements in productivity, quality, decision-making, or operational efficiency within the first year.
  • Experience leading or building AI, automation, analytics, or digital transformation capabilities within a complex enterprise environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business challenges into practical technology solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and building structure, standards, and processes where none currently exist.

Requirements

  • This hands-on technical leadership role is responsible for identifying high-value opportunities, implementing AI-enabled solutions, and creating the standards and governance required for safe, scalable adoption.
  • Reusable patterns, governance frameworks, and implementation accelerators reduce the time required to deploy new AI solutions.
  • Experience with enterprise applications, business process automation, data platforms, manufacturing systems, engineering systems, supply chain processes, or other operational business environments is highly desirable.

Skills

  • Education & Experience:
  • Minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree
  • or 12 years and a Master's degree
  • or a PhD with 8 years experience
  • or equivalent experience | Required
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
  • FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer.

Compensation

  • These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.

Equal opportunity

  • FormFactor complies with all national, state, and local laws that seek to promote equal opportunities for any applicant or employee without regard to age, race, color, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, military service, or any other legally protected characteristics.
  • These protections apply to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, and compensation.
  • For roles that are designated as remote-eligible, employees cannot be located in: AL, AK, AR, DE, GA, HI, IL, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MS, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, WV, WI, WY.
  • This list is continuously evolving and being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list.

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