Head of AI
About the role
Head of AI location Austin, TX preferred — hybrid, with frequent site travel. FLSA Status Exempt. Employment Type Full-Time. Travel Approximately 40%, primarily within Texas and to Indiana. The Head of AI will establish CMG's artificial intelligence and machine learning capability for advanced manufacturing and operations. This is initially a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for architecting and building the enterprise AI technology foundation. Working with various department heads (operations, production, development, growth and people), you will translate needs (known and unknown) into secure integrated AI capabilities that improve decision making and automated workflows across an AI technology stack that you build. As the capability matures, this leader will develop a small team and expand the platform toward physical automation and agentic systems that support rapid, reliable production scale-up. You will be pivotal to establishing security standards, governance, and performance to scale AI adoption to improve energetics manufacturing and business operations in order to make CMG the premier data and technology company automating defense energetics manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute CMG’s AI/ML strategy, technical foundation, investment priorities, and phased implementation roadmap.
- Communicate technical decisions, risks, progress, and resource requirements to executives and technical stakeholders outside the AI function.
- Partner with operations, production, programs, growth, safety, and external partners to translate business needs and critical process parameters into technical requirements and implementation plans.
- Evaluate sensors, instrumentation, and data acquisition approaches, establishing reliable, traceable methods