Director of Applied AI

What will you be doing?

• Quality control. Move from reactive inspection to predictive quality, with AI assisted in process monitoring and automated root cause analysis.
• Design. Reduce design iteration time, automate repetitive engineering decisions, and unlock generative design where it pays.
• Tooling. Accelerate tool design, optimize tool life, and bring intelligence to tool path generation.
• Making manufacturing better. Improve throughput, reduce scrap, predict defects before they happen, close the loop between machine data and process control.

What success looks like?

• Time saved per design cycle.
• Cost per part reduced.
• Defect rate, scrap rate, and rework hours reduced.
• Throughput per machine, per shift, per facility increased.
• Engineering hours redirected from repetitive tasks to high leverage work.
• MVPs shipped, retired, or scaled, with a clear scoreboard.

Who you are?

• A builder. You ship. You break things on purpose to learn faster than everyone around you.
• Senior individual contributor and player coach. You write code, design systems, and lead by example. You are not allergic to a whiteboard or a shop floor.
• You have shipped applied machine learning solutions in a real industrial, manufacturing, robotics, or hard tech setting. Not just dashboards. Not just demos.
• You speak fluent KPI. You can defend an AI investment in front of a board with numbers, not adjectives.
• You collaborate without ego with software, IT, design, manufacturing, tooling, and QC leaders. You are aligned and accountable.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, fast cadence, and ownership. Excuses do not ship parts. Execution does.
• You have MLOps and production deployment experience at scale.

Great plus:

• Background in composites, advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or defense.
• Experience with computer vision applied to automated inspection, generative design, reinforcement learning for process control.
• Prior experience standing up an AI function from zero inside a fast moving company.

About iCOMAT

iCOMAT is an Advanced Manufacturing business, which provides state-of-the-art lightweighting solutions based on the Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) process.

We are proud to collaborate with the world’s top OEMs and end-users. Together we develop new frontiers in automated composites manufacturing which revolutionises the aerospace, automotive and space sectors.

Competitive Salary & Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including private healthcare, pension scheme.

Stock Options: Equity options to give employees a stake in the company’s success.

Career Growth Opportunities: Join us at a pivotal time as we scale up, offering unmatched professional growth opportunities in the rapidly advancing field of composite materials.

Innovation-Focused Culture: We pride ourselves on our inclusive, forward-thinking work environment. Recognized by Bloomberg as a "UK Startup to Watch," iCOMAT celebrates diversity and encourages all applicants, regardless of background, to apply.

Global Impact: Be a part of our mission to redefine lightweight structures for the automotive, aerospace, and space industries, working with some of the most influential companies worldwide.

Ready to be part of something big? Apply now to learn more and join us on our exciting journey!