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AI Innovation Engineer

New Castle, PA, US • Posted 9 days ago • Updated 8 hours ago

Full Time

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Skills

Research
Productivity
Cost Reduction
Operational Efficiency
Finance
Robotics
IoT
Management
Documentation
Prototyping
Intellectual Property
Roadmaps
Collaboration
Brainstorming
KPI
Evaluation
Innovation
Business Cases
Leadership
Change Management
Regulatory Compliance
IT Security
Information Technology
Computer Science
Data Analysis
Continuous Improvement
Privacy
Communication
Presentations
Stakeholder Engagement
Data Flow
Analytical Skill
Return On Investment
Scalability
Machine Learning (ML)
Scripting
Python
C#
.NET
SQL
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft
Microsoft Power BI
JSON
Optical Character Recognition
Document Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Workflow
Manufacturing

Research
Productivity
Cost Reduction
Operational Efficiency
Finance
Robotics
IoT
Management
Documentation
Prototyping
Intellectual Property
Roadmaps
Collaboration
Brainstorming
KPI
Evaluation
Innovation
Business Cases
Leadership
Change Management
Regulatory Compliance
IT Security
Information Technology
Computer Science
Data Analysis
Continuous Improvement
Privacy
Communication
Presentations
Stakeholder Engagement
Data Flow
Analytical Skill
Return On Investment
Scalability
Machine Learning (ML)
Scripting
Python
C#
.NET
SQL
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft
Microsoft Power BI
JSON
Optical Character Recognition
Document Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Workflow
Manufacturing

Summary

The AI Innovation Engineer is instrumental in identifying, evaluating, developing, and implementing new technology solutions, processes, and products that align with the organization's strategic goals. This person enhances efficiency, improves quality, and drives competitive advantage in a manufacturing environment. The AI Innovation Engineer monitors emerging trends, supports pilot projects, and collaborates with cross-functional partners to drive digital transformation across the business. Successful candidates blend creativity with technical rigor and able to experiment rapidly while ensuring solutions can scale within enterprise IT standards. This position is located in New Castle PA.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Research, evaluate and analyze emerging technology trends and manufacturing methods to identify opportunities for innovation in IT and across the organization that drives improved productivity, cost reduction and/or enhanced product quality.
Evaluate the potential of new tools, methodologies, and practices to improve operational efficiency and business outcomes.
Lead innovation projects from concept to implementation.
Collaborate with engineering, production, quality, and finance teams to identify process inefficiencies and develop innovative solutions.
Support digital transformation initiatives such as automation, robotics, IoT integration, and data-driven manufacturing.
Collaborate with cross-functional department to generate and manage pipeline of innovation ideas.
Scout vendors and recommend buy-vs-build paths.
Develop and maintain documentation for innovation projects, prototypes, and intellectual property considerations.
Build and maintain an IT innovation roadmap.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business challenges and propose technology-driven solutions.
Facilitate brainstorming sessions, workshops, and innovation labs to promote a culture of innovation.
Collect and analyze data to measure the effectiveness of new technologies and solutions. Map current processes, baseline KPIs
Support the planning, execution, and evaluation of pilot projects, proof-of-concepts, and innovation initiatives.
Work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure feasibility, compliance, and scalability of solutions.
Prepare presentations, reports, and business cases to communicate findings and recommendations to leadership.
Assist in change management and communication efforts to ensure adoption of new technologies.
Maintain confidentiality and adhere to company compliance and IT security standards.
Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Core Competencies

Strong understanding of IT systems, digital tools, and project lifecycles.
Exposure to data analysis, automation tools, or continuous improvement concepts is a plus.
Familiarity with governance, privacy and security practices
Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Ability to critically evaluate technical designs, vendor proposals, and solution architectures to identify risks, gaps, feasibility issues, and unrealistic assumptions.
Ability to translate business needs into clear technical concepts, high-level requirements, or prototype workflows.
Comfort digging into technical details, diagnosing issues across applications, integrations, data flows, and automation platforms, and proposing pragmatic solutions.
Strong analytical thinking with the ability to evaluate ROI, scalability, long-term maintainability, and operational impact of new technologies.

Preferred Technical Skills

Experience with AI/ML platforms
Exposure to modern programming/scripting such as Python, C#/.NET, SQL, or similar for automation and integrations.
Familiar with Azure services and Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse).
Knowledge of AI agent frameworks.
Understanding of REST APIs, JSON structures
Experience with OCR, Intelligent Document Processing, or AI-assisted workflow automation Job Requirement
Willingness to travel occasionally to manufacturing sites to provide on-site support. (10%)

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