AI Solutions Architect

Materion is seeking an experienced AI Solutions Architect to lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise AI solutions. The position serves as the subject matter expert for AI initiatives, providing strategic leadership and hands-on technical execution across manufacturing data, enterprise copilots, and governed AI capabilities. The role partners with IT, Data, Security, and Business teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-impact AI solutions that enable smarter operations and decision-making.

You Will Have an Opportunity to:

Build and Deliver AI Solutions

• Design, develop, operationalize, and deploy AI/ML and LLM-based solutions in production.
• Build data pipelines and integrations to support AI use cases.
• Implement enterprise AI architectures, including RAG, vector databases, semantic layers, orchestration frameworks, and AI assistants.
• Work directly in code, including Python, APIs, and cloud services, to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Understand business issues, value, requirements, and success criteria.
• Drive successful AI adoption through people, process, system, and data improvements.
• Define scalable architecture patterns and make design decisions across data ingestion, model integration, tuning, and application layers.
• Establish reusable frameworks and standards, conduct design reviews, and guide engineering teams.

Manufacturing Data Integration

• Build and optimize pipelines for manufacturing and operational data.
• Support predictive maintenance, quality metrics, and process optimization use cases.
• Partner with OT and data teams to ensure reliable, secure data flow.

Enterprise Copilot and AI Enablement

• Lead implementation of enterprise copilots, including Microsoft Copilot and custom GPT solutions.
• Connect AI solutions securely to internal data sources.
• Identify and deliver AI use cases across business functions.

Governance and Compliance

• Support and advise the Materion AI Committee.
• Establish guardrails for responsible AI use, data protection, and model governance.
• Ensure alignment with security and compliance requirements.

Leadership and Delivery

• Act as the subject matter expert supporting Materion’s AI Committee.
• Implement guardrails for responsible AI, security, and data protection.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise policies and compliance requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Engineering (or a related field), or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or solution architecture roles.
• Proven hands-on experience with AI/ML or large language model solutions.
• Strong coding and API development experience and experience with cloud platforms and modern data architecture.
• Strong understanding of APIs, data pipelines, and system design and the ability to design and implement systems independently.
• Ability to define scalable AI and data architecture patterns and the ability to guide engineering teams and conduct design reviews.
• Understanding of responsible AI, data protection, security, and compliance requirements.

Preferred

• Experience in manufacturing or industrial environments, including IT/OT integrations.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI, or similar platforms.
• Experience with data lakes, streaming, or large-scale telemetry data.
• Experience with Azure, Python, modern AI/ML frameworks, RAG, vector databases, semantic layers, orchestration frameworks, identity and access controls (including authentication and RBAC), and NIST or similar compliance frameworks.

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The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on Materion’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Materion’s business requirements.

Materion Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.

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