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Forming Our Future together FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM) is a leading provider of essential test and measurement technologies along the full semiconductor product life cycle — from characterization, modeling, reliability, and design de-bug, to qualification and production test. Semiconductor companies rely upon FormFactor’s products and services to accelerate profitability by optimizing device performance and advancing yield knowledge. The company serves customers through its network of facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America. Rooted in our core values — Focus on the Customer, Ownership & Accountability, Respectfully & Effectively Communicate, and Motivate & Develop People — we foster an environment where diverse perspectives are not only welcomed but celebrated. Everyone can make an impact here.

The IT Principal Technical Lead, AI & Automation is responsible for leading the evaluation, implementation, governance, and adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Automation capabilities across FormFactor. This role partners with business and technology teams to identify high‑value opportunities, deliver production‑ready solutions, and establish the standards and implementation patterns required for scalable enterprise adoption. Success requires balancing innovation with pragmatism and delivering measurable business outcomes through secure, scalable, and maintainable AI‑enabled solutions.

• 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.
• Establish repeatable implementation patterns, reusable templates, best practices and accelerators that enable rapid and consistent AI adoption across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with enterprise application, data, infrastructure and security teams to integrate AI capabilities into existing business processes, systems, and workflows.
• Ensure AI and automation solutions comply with enterprise security, privacy, data governance, legal, regulatory and responsible AI requirements.
• Measure adoption, business impact, and operational effectiveness of AI initiatives, continuously refining priorities and approaches based on outcomes and feedback.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and IT leaders, helping stakeholders understand AI capabilities, limitations, risks and appropriate use cases.
• Mentor technical staff and help build organizational AI capabilities through coaching, knowledge sharing and development of internal best practices.

• Experience leading or building AI, automation, analytics or digital transformation capabilities within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong technical understanding of modern AI platforms, copilots, agents, automation technologies, large language models and implementation patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business challenges into practical technology solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
• Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise applications, business processes and data platforms.
• Experience working across business and technical teams, influencing stakeholders and driving adoption of new capabilities.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and building structure, standards and processes where none currently exist.
• Practical and execution‑oriented mindset focused on business value, adoption and delivery rather than technology hype.
• Strong communication, leadership, facilitation and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Experience with enterprise applications, business process automation, data platforms, manufacturing systems, engineering systems, supply chain processes or other operational business environments is highly desirable.

• AI Concepts
• AI Platforms
• Business Solutions Development
• Cross‑Functional AI Leadership
• Enterprise IT Governance
• Functional Leadership
• Influential Communications
• Information Technology (IT) Solutions
• Strategic Communication Planning
• Team Facilitation

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.

FormFactor is an equal opportunity employer. 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 or 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.