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

C3 AI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (Chicago, IL and Redwood City, CA)$130k - $203kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Industry Solution Leader specialized in High Tech Manufacturing with a focus on Semiconductor and Fuel Cell Fabrication. Responsible for designing and delivering enterprise AI solutions, leading cross-functional teams, and driving measurable business outcomes for complex manufacturing and supply chain engagements.

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for assigned customer engagements from problem definition through production deployment and scale.
  • Serve as the primary customer-facing solution leader and supply chain domain expert, understanding customer planning processes, workflows, constraints, systems, and business objectives.
  • Identify and quantify high-impact opportunities across demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, production planning, scheduling, pricing, procurement, logistics, order fulfillment, service levels, and working capital.
  • Translate complex supply chain and operational challenges into AI/ML/optimization problems with defined decision variables, constraints, requirements, success criteria, and business value.
  • Lead engagements through use case definition, requirements gathering, solution architecture, application configuration, validation, production deployment, user adoption, and scale-out.
  • Apply deep supply chain expertise to challenge assumptions and ensure solutions reflect operational and economic realities of the customer’s business.
  • Lead cross-functional teams of Forward Deployed Engineers, data scientists, product managers, engineers, and industry experts to deliver outcomes.
  • Collaborate with customer planners, manufacturing teams, pricing, procurement, logistics, technology leaders, finance, and executives to validate requirements and impact.
  • Guide interpretation and use of supply chain and enterprise data (demand, orders, pricing, inventory, production, capacity, lead times, BOM, suppliers, purchasing, shipments, logistics, service levels, financials).
  • Maintain accountability for solution quality, business value, risks, delivery progress, customer adoption, and executive communication.
  • Partner with product management and engineering to identify reusable capabilities and scale successful solutions across plants and networks.
  • Support sales during opportunity assessment and capture with problem definition, value, requirements, deployment strategy, and demonstrations.
  • Contribute to SOW and deployment plan development with clear scope, deliverables, data requirements, risks, timelines, and resources.
  • Develop repeatable supply chain methodologies, solution patterns, and best practices; represent C3 AI in customer and industry forums.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative field.
  • 7+ years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, operations, planning, logistics, procurement, pricing, operations research, or technically focused consulting.
  • Deep experience in demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, production planning, manufacturing scheduling, pricing, procurement, logistics, distribution, or network optimization.
  • Experience in complex manufacturing or supply chain environments (high-tech/semiconductor, industrial manufacturing, automotive, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of supply chain planning concepts (service levels, safety stock, lead times, capacity constraints, BOMs, production constraints, inventory policies, pricing, sourcing, network flows).
  • Proven ability to solve complex supply chain problems and improve service levels, forecast performance, inventory, working capital, or operating costs.
  • Experience with ERP/MRP/Planning/WMS/TMS/Procurement/Manufacturing data and enterprise systems.
  • Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9 or similar planning systems.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving, ability to reason about tradeoffs and optimization objectives.
  • Demonstrated experience leading customer-facing technical engagements and working with diverse stakeholders.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into technical solutions.

Skills

Required:Supply chain domain expertiseSolution leadershipData interpretation and modelingStakeholder alignment and communicationLeadership of cross-functional teamsIndustry experience in semiconductors or advanced manufacturing

Benefits

  • Excellent benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Generous equity plan
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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