Executive Director, Applied AI
ThermoFisher Scientific · Suwanee, GA
$201,400–$335,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Suwanee, GA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior executive role responsible for building and running an end-to-end AI engineering and platform organization, covering model delivery, MLOps, workflow orchestration, and automation infrastructure. The position leads product-aligned engineering teams, defines reusable AI architecture patterns, and evolves development practices toward AI-assisted and agentic models. It suits a seasoned technology leader with deep experience scaling AI/ML systems in complex enterprise settings, ideally in regulated industries.
Principal level · 15+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 440 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 190–660
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This is an Executive Director / VP-equivalent people-management role with direct organizational ownership across AI engineering, platform engineering, and automation — clearly a Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) classification. The alt code 15-1299 is noted only because the role has unusually deep hands-on technical framing for an executive.
The compensation range ($201,400–$335,000/year) is stated as 'estimated for this position based in North Carolina,' though the role is remote-US with an east coast preference; the NC figure is used as quoted.
The posting requires a Bachelor's degree outright ('Bachelor's degree required') and lists an advanced degree as preferred — the degree requirement is set to Bachelors accordingly.
Concrete named technologies are sparse for a role at this level; the JD is largely strategic/organizational in framing. Skills extracted reflect the specific platforms and capability categories explicitly named (AI/ML, GenAI, MLOps, RPA, APIs, LLMs/Codex-style tools, workflow orchestration). CI/CD and agentic AI appear only in narrative context and are marked preferred.
The posting notes east coast preference for the remote location; no specific metro is mandated. The compensation benchmark is anchored to North Carolina, so Raleigh-Cary, NC is used as the CBSA.
Work authorization sponsorship is explicitly excluded ('Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship').
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): workflow orchestration, platform architecture.
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