Data Science & AI Manager

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Architect and oversee AI/ML systems pipelines and application platforms for enterprise and engineering use cases.

• Set engineering standards and guide technical decisions around model selection system architecture infrastructure observability security evaluation and lifecycle management.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through design reviews code reviews mentoring and execution guidance for a small AI engineering team.

• Lead the design and implementation of applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) agentic systems enterprise connectors and workflow orchestration.

• Translate business and engineering needs into practical AI architectures and phased delivery roadmaps.

• Drive the full lifecycle of AI applications from research and prototyping through evaluation production deployment and operational support.

• Ensure AI solutions are explainable reliable secure and aligned with regulatory expectations and internal governance policies.

• Work closely with data engineering software engineering IT and business teams to ensure high-quality well-governed data availability for AI applications.

• Stay current with advances in AI/ML evaluate new techniques and frameworks and drive pragmatic adoption using secure cloud-native or hybrid architectures.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors / masters degree in computer science engineering with specialization in Data Science/AI/ML/ Statistics

• Overall Experience of 12 to 15 years and minimum 5 years relevant experience

Skills

• Experience with open-source model ecosystems model serving and deployment optimization.

• Exposure to fine-tuning adapters or domain customization techniques.

• Experience designing evaluation frameworks benchmarks guardrails and quality measurement processes.

• Experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning models.

• Exposure to engineering industrial manufacturing photonics or other deep-technical domains.

• Experience of managing a highly talented AI/Data Science Team of >5 people

• Design build automate deploy and maintain machine learning production pipelines.

• Extensive knowledge and skills in frameworks (like TensorFlow Pytorch Huggingface) libraries (LlamaIndex Langchain)

• Expertise in Python and Visualization Python modules like matplotlib seaborn

• Knowledge of Big data systems Data ingestion tools/processes/techniques like Streamsets Spark

• Prior experience leading and mentoring a mid-size (5 people) technical team.

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English; comfortable presenting to senior leadership / global stakeholders.

Working Conditions

• The work mode of Finisar India is Hybrid i.e. 3 days at office.

CultureCommitment

Ensure adherence to companys values (ICARE) in all aspects of your position at Coherent Corp.:

Integrity Create an Environment of Trust

Collaboration Innovate Through the Sharing of Ideas

Accountability Own the Process and the Outcome

Respect Recognize the Value in Everyone

Enthusiasm Find a Sense of Purpose in Work

Coherent Corp. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law.