Senior Director, AI Technical Programs
AI summary of the role
Senior Director leading Applied Materials' AI programs for the Process Support Engineer (PSE) community, driving AI solutions that accelerate troubleshooting, knowledge access, and training across a global field organization.
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What you’ll do
- Build AI that helps PSEs find information fast, summarize technical content, support troubleshooting, automate workflows, and generate reports.
- Deliver practical chat/search/assistant access to knowledge bases while maintaining IP, security, and compliance controls.
- Evaluate internal and external AI platforms, models, tools, and vendors; run pilots and recommend solutions that improve PSE capability.
- Lead a small team of AI practitioners to prototype, build, and integrate solutions with real data sources and existing systems.
What you’ll bring
- 10–15 years leading cross-functional technical programs and delivering AI/ML or GenAI solutions from prototype to scaled deployment in an enterprise setting.
- Deep understanding of AI/ML and GenAI, including knowledge systems, retrieval, data governance, and model lifecycle.
- Proven ability to influence without authority across business units and centralized AI groups.
- Experience building practical AI solutions for engineering workflows, with awareness of PSE workflow and integration constraints.
Technologies
GenAI · AI/ML · knowledge systems · retrieval · data governance · model lifecycle · chat/search/assistant · prompt engineering · Responsible AI · PSE workflows
About Applied Materials
Builds semiconductor and display manufacturing equipment, services, and process technology that chipmakers use to produce advanced logic, memory, packaging, and displays.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits. General Profile This role leads the company’s AI work that directly helps the Process Support Engineer (PSE) community move faster and work more consistently. You’ll set direction, keep the program moving, and make sure we’re getting real results—better tools, better knowledge access, and better training—without creating risk around security, IP, or compliance. You’ll work across Field teams, Business Units, Digital/IT, compliance partners, and
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Who We Are Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. What We Offer Salary: $200,000.00 - $275,000.00 Location: Santa Clara,CA You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits. General Profile This role leads the company’s AI work that [... source excerpt omitted ...] o structure information so people (and AI) can actually find and use it. Enough PSE workflow and integration awareness to understand what will (and won’t) work in the field. Key Responsibilities What you’ll actually do: Build AI that helps PSEs every day. Focus on high-frequency work like finding the right info fast, summarizing technical content, supporting troubleshooting, automating repeatable workflows, generating reports, and improving structured documentation. Use AI to build and maintain PSE knowledge bases. That includes making content “AI-ready,” keeping it updated, and putting the right controls around it so the right people can access the right information. Make knowled [... source excerpt omitted ...] books, and working sessions that build practical skill and improve job velocity. Measure adoption and proficiency so we know what’s working. Translate real PSE pain into buildable requirements. Partner with Field and BU leaders to make sure the AI work connects to customer-impacting outcomes and not just “cool tech.” Align with AI leadership + converge BU capabilities into PSE-optimized solutions. Work with internal AI leadership teams and the BUs to adopt shared best practices and standards, influence convergence of separately developed AI capabilities into PSE-optimized solutions, and drive field rollout with hands-on, PSE-relevant training. Set guardrails and standards. Make sure
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