Industry Solution Leader - High Tech Manufacturing (Semiconductor and Fuel Cell Fabrication)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, or Redwood City, California, United States; travel to customer locations as required.

Salary: $130,000–$203,000 USD annual base pay, plus equity and benefits.

Company

C3 AI develops enterprise AI software, including an AI platform and industry-specific SaaS applications for global digital transformation.

What you will do

• Own solution strategy, technical direction, delivery outcomes, and customer value from problem definition through production deployment and scale.
• Lead customer discovery across supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, logistics, finance, technology, and executive functions.
• Identify and quantify opportunities in demand planning, inventory, production planning, scheduling, pricing, procurement, logistics, and working capital.
• Translate operational challenges into AI, machine learning, optimization, and software solutions with defined constraints and success criteria.
• Lead Forward Deployed Engineers, data scientists, product managers, engineers, and industry experts through architecture, validation, adoption, and scale-out.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to develop reusable capabilities, support sales engagements, and create deployment plans and methodologies.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations research, supply chain management, industrial engineering, computer science, mathematics, economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, operations, planning, logistics, procurement, pricing, operations research, or technically focused consulting.
• Hands-on experience in semiconductor fab operations or process engineering, or comparable fuel-cell or advanced-manufacturing fabrication, including relevant fab steps and ownership of yield, cycle time, WIP, excursions, tool availability, capacity, or process optimization.
• Experience leading complex customer-facing technical engagements and working with operational, technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, presentation, written communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, operations research, mathematical optimization, advanced analytics, or supply chain digital transformation solutions.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, analytics, optimization tools, application configuration, or scripting.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9, or similar supply chain platforms.
• Experience scaling solutions across multiple plants, product families, regions, networks, or business units.
• Advanced degree in engineering, operations research, supply chain, analytics, or a related quantitative field.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a competitive compensation package.
• Excellent benefits and a generous equity plan.
• Work includes customer-site travel as required.