Technical Program Manager - AI/ML, GOPs AIAI

The group you’ll be a part of

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The Global Operations AI team is a newly formed, centralized, high-impact group responsible for defining, continuously evolving, and executing the AI/ML/Automation technology roadmap across Lam Research Global Operations. The team partners closely with Lam’s Enterprise AI office, Global Operations functional business owners, technical teams, platform providers, and internal/external partners to identify, prioritize, deploy, and scale AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business value.

The impact you’ll make

We are seeking a highly skilled and versatile AI/ML/Automation Technical Program Manager to help bridge the connection between Global Operations business needs and AI/ML/Automation technical execution. This role will work closely with Operations TPMs, business process owners, Enterprise AI platform teams, vendors, and internal/external delivery partners across the full lifecycle of use-case implementation — from discovery, solution shaping, and build execution through deployment, adoption, run-state transition, and value realization.

The ideal candidate combines strong operations process knowledge, technical fluency in multiple AI/ML/Automation platforms, solution design and deployment, and excellent program execution skills. This individual will act as a trusted connector between business stakeholders and technical teams, helping translate high-priority operational challenges into scalable, secure, explainable, and outcome-driven AI solutions. This role is critical to ensuring that Global Operations AI initiatives are not only technically feasible, but also operationally relevant, adopted by users, embedded into business workflows, and measured against clear value outcomes.

What you’ll do

AI/ML/Automation Strategy and Governance

• Support evaluation and selection of AI/ML/Automation platforms & methodologies as well as build & run partners to create a robust partner ecosystem.
• Support creating and evolving a live multi-year GOPs AI Roadmap covering capabilities and value capture.
• Maintain visibility to GOPs AI portfolio, program health, technical risks, dependencies, system readiness, and resource needs.

Technical Execution & Solution Translation

• Drive end-to-end execution of AI/ML/Automation initiatives from discovery through value realization post deployment.
• Translate business challenges into clear technical problems & requirements. Identify gaps between requirements and feasibility early and drive resolution at speed through tradeoff discussions and escalations.
• Partner with data engineers, data scientists, information security engineers, and platform teams to ensure required data pipelines, integrations and security protocols are defined and executed.
• Support the transition from build to run by ensuring ownership, support model, documentation, monitoring requirements including eval metrics, training, and continuous improvement mechanisms are established.

Cross-functional Collaboration & Value Realization

• Build strong partnerships with GOPs, Enterprise AI, IT, Information Security teams and external partner ecosystem.
• Act as a trusted advisor to GOPs stakeholders on how AI/ML/Automation capabilities can be applied to transform operational processes, enable intelligent decision-making, and drive productivity gains.
• Partner with GOPs functional teams to ensure deployed solutions are embedded into business processes and adopted by end users.

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of experience; or Master’s degree with 12+ years’ experience; or a PhD with 8+ years’ experience; or equivalent experience
• Exposure to Operations domains - Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Planning, Order Management, Spares Operations and adjacent business functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional AI/ML/Automation programs from concept through deployment and operational handoff.
• Technical fluency in AI/ML/Automation concepts, including predictive modeling, optimization, workflow orchestration, LLM/RAG workflows, intelligent agents, analytics, dat