What are the responsibilities and job description for the MES AI Technical Lead position at NeoPhotonics Corporation?
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! We are seeking an experienced MES AI Technical Lead to drive the deployment, integration, and scaling of Artificial Intelligence within our Manufacturing Execution System (MES). This role is pivotal to advancing our digital transformation strategy, with an initial focus on Visual Inspection (VI) and other critical manufacturing process steps. The MES AI Technical Lead will work across global sites to accelerate AI adoption, enhance internal capability, and ensure successful implementation of cutting-edge models within production workflows. Key Responsibilities Lead AI rollout across identified Visual Inspection process steps with expansion potential across additional manufacturing operations. Collaborate with the Head of AI and cross-functional engineering, quality, operations, and manufacturing teams to define and execute AI deployment strategies. Coordinate with AI external partners to support concurrent model deployment across multiple global facilities. Conduct on-site assessments and deployment support at six manufacturing locations, identifying integration opportunities and ensuring successful model implementation within MES. Create and maintain technical documentation, including integration guides, training materials, and best practices that strengthen long-term internal AI capability. Mentor and train internal engineers and technicians on AI tools, troubleshooting techniques, deployment workflows, and sustaining AI within MES environments. Support hybrid collaboration, balancing on-site presence with remote work and remaining flexible for evening calls to accommodate global time zones. Qualifications 10 years of experience in MES, industrial automation, AI/ML deployment, or related technical leadership roles. Hands-on experience with computer vision, model deployment, or factory automation platforms (Landing AI experience is a plus). Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, quality control processes, and digital transformation initiatives. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical programs and manage multi-site rollouts. Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills. Education Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Manufacturing Systems, or a related technical field required. Master’s degree in a relevant field preferred but not required. Pay Range: P70-USA-1 :$130,850.00 - $186,900.00 Disclaimer: Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits. Lumentum is powering the networks of tomorrow with advanced photonic technologies that enable AI, data centers, telecom, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale. Our optical products support AI and compute infrastructure, cloud and DCI environments, metro and long-haul networks, while our lasers drive breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and sensing. Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.
Salary : $130,850 - $186,900