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Job Summary:
Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. As a Sr. AI Manager, you will lead the delivery of end-to-end AI initiatives across the enterprise, ensuring responsible AI practices and maximizing operational efficiency through collaboration with technical and business teams.
Responsibilities:
• Manage delivery and support operations for Gen AI and AI, supervising AI initiatives considering user needs, new capabilities, and tech advancements.
• Oversee Gen AI, Classical AI, Data Science and Automation initiatives across Enterprise functions such as Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Customer Experience, Legal, HR and others.
• Manage and govern AI, GenAI models, AI Apps through experimentation and production lifecycles with MLOPs, LLMOps, AI Gateway and AI Observability tools.
• Accelerate Applied Gen AI Initiatives with creating a rapid iteration loop from idea to execution in line with responsible AI principles. Guide and steer Corporate AI Risk Council balancing risk, compliance and speed for Gen AI adoption.
• Drive evaluation & observability first mindset bringing Gen AI reliability to the center stage. Strategize around creating a robust data flywheel ensuring a roadmap for continuous learning systems.
• Effectively use Gen AI to drive efficiency and optimization throughout the enterprise ecosystem. Collaborate with fellow Data Engineers and Analysts ensuring Data, Analytics and AI strategies share a common vision.
• Provide technical guidance on AI portfolio & strategy, effort sizing & estimation, as well as, build vs buy vs wait decisions.
• Effectively communicate by simplifying AI concepts for a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security to help establish standards, frameworks and reference implementations for compound AI systems bringing clarity on classification aware data use and safe AI/Gen AI practices.
• Translate and align key research advancements in AI into actionable strategy for Solstice Advanced Materials, pushing the envelope with state of art, enterprise ready AI solutions.
Qualifications:
Required:
• A master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in AI and Analytics, with a demonstrated track record of production grade enterprise-scale application development.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python, SQL with hands-on knowledge of modern data engineering tools and practices.
• Foundational understanding of AI concepts like Self-attention, Transformer architecture, Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback, Deep Learning, MCP etc.
• Prior experience with Azure AI Search, Qdrant, Postgres Vector or similar vector databases.
Preferred:
• Experience managing high-performing engineering teams and mentoring junior engineers in complex technical environments.
• AI & Advanced Analytics: Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms (Azure OpenAI, Databricks, MLOps) and implementing enterprise-scale machine learning solutions.
• Experience implementing end-to-end AI & Gen AI solutions especially around RAG, Graph RAG systems or similar semantic search systems.
• Preference alignment or Supervised Fine Tuning of LLMs.
• Large scale data preparation for training LLMs.
• Experiment design or evaluation dataset creation for optimizing AI models.
• Predictive, forecasting or timeseries AI/ML models.
• AI/ML Framework such as Pytorch, Tensorflow or Scikit Learn.
• AI Agent/Workflow Framework such as Langchain, Langgraph, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK, Semantic Kernel.
• Strong ability to translate complex AI concepts to business stakeholders and drive consensus across diverse teams.
• Experience and domain knowledge of enterprise systems of records such as SAP for ERP, Salesforce for CRM and associated E2E processes etc.
• Background in enterprise domains such as Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, Customer Experience and others.
• Prior publication record in top tier journals or conferences such as NeurIPS, AAAI, EMNLP, MICA or similar.
• Experience with AI Reliability, Trust and Safety, Responsible AI governance frameworks.
• Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, Terraform/Bicep, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud-native architecture in enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of languages such as Spark, Scala, Rust, C#, Java or similar.
• Familiarity with IT Operations, ITIL practices and other service management frameworks.
• Ownership and Pride in your work and willingness to work in a diverse, cross-functional environment.
Company:
Solstice Advanced Materials develops advanced chemicals and materials for refrigerants, semiconductors, healthcare packaging, data centres. Founded in 2025, the company is headquartered in Morris Plains, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.