Coherent Corp.
Director, Data Science & Analytics
Santa Clara, CA, United States · Director
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About the role
- Your work will directly improve yield, capacity planning, cost, and speed to market as we scale output for AI infrastructure customers.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the team. Hire, develop, and manage data scientists, analysts, and ML and data engineers. Create a culture of rigor, ownership, and collaboration.
- Own the platform. Guide the data and ML infrastructure, including cloud data platforms, pipelines, MLOps, and BI tools. Make sure it scales across global fabs and sites.
- Drive business impact. Turn complex analysis into clear recommendations for executives. Partner with operations, engineering, product, finance, and sales to put solutions into daily use.
- Deliver models that ship.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in statistics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, economics, or a related field.
- 10+ years in data science or analytics, including 5+ years leading teams of data scientists, analysts, or engineers.
- A track record of taking models from prototype to production and measuring their business value.
- Experience with modern data and ML platforms, such as Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, or AWS, Azure, or GCP services.
- The ability to rank competing priorities by business impact and say no to the rest.
- Hands-on expertise in Python and SQL, plus machine learning, statistical modeling, and experimental design.
- Clear, concise communication with executives and non-technical partners.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in a quantitative field.
- Experience in semiconductor, photonics, optical networking, or other high-tech manufacturing.
- Familiarity with manufacturing data, such as MES, SPC, test and yield data, or equipment sensor data.
- Experience deploying generative AI or LLM solutions in an enterprise setting.
- Safety Requirements
- All employees are required to follow the site EHS procedures and Coherent Corp.
- Corporate EHS standards.
- Quality and Environmental Responsibilities
Benefits
- Lead the development and deployment of predictive models, machine learning, and statistical analysis.
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