[Remote] AI Engineer, Industrial

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences, focused on delivering sustainable innovations. The AI Engineer, Industrial role involves developing AI and machine learning solutions to enhance industrial data understanding and decision-making processes, while collaborating with various teams to create impactful applications.ResponsibilitiesDevelop practical AI, machine learning and optimization solutions that help technical and operational teams make complex industrial data easier to understand, explore, and act onApply frontier AI models, including large language models, foundation models, and multimodal approaches, to create reliable tools for search, analysis, knowledge discovery, and decision supportBuild AI-enabled applications that combine models, data pipelines, prompts, agents, evaluations, optimization logic, and user feedback into solutions that are useful, explainable, and maintainableDesign and use knowledge graphs, ontologies, and structured domain knowledge to connect process data, experimental data, documents, terminology, assets, materials, and business contextWork with domain experts to translate scientific, engineering, process control, and operational questions into data products, model workflows, optimization approaches, and user-friendly analytics experiencesDevelop robust pipelines for structured and unstructured data, including time-series data, laboratory data, manufacturing data, documents, and scientific or technical knowledge sourcesContribute to model validation, monitoring, documentation, governance, and continuous improvement so that deployed solutions can be trusted in real industrial environmentsCollaborate across data science, engineering, digital technology, operations, and business teams to deliver solutions that create measurable value and are designed for adoptionSkillsMaster's, or PhD degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Process Control, Computer Science, Data Science or Applied MathematicsDemonstrated industrial experience with a proven track record of delivering measurable business impact and driving outcomes in production or operational environmentsProven, hands-on experience with Python and modern machine learning workflows, including data preparation, modeling, validation, deployment, and monitoringExperience developing end-to-end AI or machine learning applications, not only exploratory notebooks, with an ability to move from prototype to reliable solution including demonstrated experience deploying solutions in real industrial or production environmentsPractical understanding of frontier model capabilities and limitations, including prompt design, agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, hallucination reduction, and human-in-the-loop workflowsExperience working with structured and unstructured data, such as time-series data, scientific data, engineering data, documents, knowledge bases, or complex operational datasetsKnowledge of methods such as mathematical optimization, process control, forecasting, anomaly detection, recommendation systems, natural language interfaces, classification, deep learning, or predictive analyticsFamiliarity with software engineering practices such as version control, testing, application programming interfaces, containers, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and maintainable code designAbility to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences, including explaining model outputs, uncertainty, assumptions, control logic, optimization trade-offs, and practical implicationsA practical, delivery-oriented mindset with curiosity for industrial, scientific, optimization, and process control problems and a strong focus on usefulness, trust, and adoptionExperience with knowledge graphs, ontologies, semantic modeling, graph databases, or retrieval-augmented generation for scientific, industrial, or operational use casesExperience in manufacturing, process development, industrial operations, supply chain, biomanufacturing, bioinformatics, chemical processes, advanced process control, or mathematical optimization in technical environmentsExperience with model registries, experiment tracking, observability, prompt and version management, evaluation frameworks, cloud platforms, or production machine learning systemsBenefitsMedicalDentalVision401kVacationHolidaysPaid parental leave (maternity and paternity)An annual bonus planCompany OverviewAt IFF, we make joy through science, creativity and heart. It was founded in 1833, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://iff.com.Company H1B SponsorshipIFF has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 29 in 2025, 23 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 26 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.