Industry Solution Leader - Food & Agriculture (Food Manufacturing)

The role

The Industry Solution Leader for Food & Agriculture will lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions for clients specializing in Food Manufacturing. This role involves owning solution strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and working with customer engineering and executive teams to deliver business outcomes.

What you will do

• Own overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for customer engagements.
• Serve as primary customer-facing solution leader and domain expert.
• Identify and quantify high-impact business opportunities in areas like reliability, yield, and energy efficiency.
• Translate engineering and operational challenges into AI, machine learning, and software problems.
• Lead engagements through use case definition, architecture, deployment, and scale-out.
• Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, data scientists, and product managers.
• Work with customer engineers, operators, and executives to validate requirements and impact.
• Guide the interpretation and use of industrial data.
• Partner with product management to identify reusable capabilities and scale solutions.
• Support sales teams with opportunity assessment, solution approaches, and demonstrations.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations, reliability, maintenance, industrial technology, or technically focused consulting.
• Deep experience in one or more asset-intensive industries.
• Demonstrated experience solving complex operational problems.
• Strong understanding of industrial equipment, manufacturing or production processes, process controls, maintenance practices, or operational workflows.
• Experience working with industrial data including sensor and time-series data, equipment states, alarms, and maintenance history.
• Experience with industrial systems such as process historians, SCADA, DCS, MES, EAM/CMMS, ERP, advanced process control, or industrial analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to reason from engineering fundamentals.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, customer-facing technical engagements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with software engineers, data scientists, and product managers.
• Excellent presentation, written communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, Mining, Metallurgical, Petroleum, Materials, or similar engineering backgrounds are preferred.
• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, optimization, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, process optimization, or industrial digital transformation solutions.
• Hands-on technical experience working with industrial data, SQL, Python, analytics tools, application configuration, scripting, or similar technologies.
• Experience with rotating equipment, electrical equipment, production equipment, manufacturing lines, process units, mining systems, utility assets, or other complex industrial systems.
• Experience taking technical solutions from initial proof of value through production deployment and scale.
• Experience scaling solutions across multiple assets, plants, facilities, or business units.
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• Generous equity plan

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.

About the company

C3 AI (NYSE: AI) is the Enterprise AI application software company. It delivers a family of integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications, and C3 Generative AI.