AI Products Software Engineer, Fullstack

Requisition Number: 67291

Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.

We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.

Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers. 

The global Information Technology (IT) Function is leading efforts to align IT and Business Strategy, leverage IT investments, and optimize end to end business processes and associated information integration technologies.  Through these efforts, IT helps to improve the competitive position of Corning's businesses through IT enabled processes.  IT also delivers Information Technology applications, infrastructure, and project services in a cost efficient manner to Corning worldwide.

Company Overview:

Corning is a global leader in materials science, leveraging our expertise in specialty glass, ceramics, and optical physics to create innovative products that shape industries and improve lives. With a legacy of over 170 years, Corning is committed to driving technological advancements through research and development and collaborating closely with customers to address complex challenges.

Position Summary:

The D&IT AI Platform & Products team is seeking an experienced and hands-on Product Owner to lead the development and ownership of our internal Generative AI capabilities. The successful candidate will work closely with businesses to understand their Gen AI needs, identify high-value opportunities, and deliver impactful AI solutions.  This role requires strategic thinking, high-level understanding of LLM capabilities, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive the successful implementation and adoption of GenAI solutions across Corning’s businesses. You will define the product’s roadmap, oversee its management, and ensure alignment with business priorities and objectives. In this role, you will also work cross functionally to scale and grow AI functions that support future business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Application software design patterns and software architecture
• Front-end development with a variety of web frameworks using both reactive and responsive design techniques as appropriate
• Back-end development with multiple development stacks using authentication, network and storage APIs, serialization and deserialization, server-side application development using object oriented and functional programming techniques as needed and programmatic SQL for data access
• Elicit requirements from our business partners to build applications and translate into a solution.
• Design & develop, test, deploy and monitor custom applications using a variety of application frameworks and systems like vuejs, flask, and huggingface
• Work with the patterns and platforms team to confirm design and leverage existing patterns and/or contribute to patterns catalog
• Participate in architecture and software development activities
• Translate loosely defined requirements into solutions
• Debug production issues across services, at all component levels
• Use our toolchain service offering for your day-to-day activities and work to continually improve it

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• Certification in AWS cloud infrastructure preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience with 3+ years proven experience as a fullstack developer or similar role in a digital technology organization.

Required Skills:

• Strong technical collaboration and communication skills as well as the ability to drive cultural change and adoption of best practices through community participation
• Ability to collaborate with other teams across the company, defining technology roadmaps, sharing experiences and lessons learned for continual improvement
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Process-oriented with great documentation skills
• Ability to document code.
• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Proficiency with agile software development tools including Gitlab, Jira, CI/CD and technical documentation tools
• Development experience in python.
• Agile framework (scrum)
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities and technologies.

Desired Skills:

• Databricks
• Hands on experience with Hugging Face
• Experience building a GenAI application
• .net, C#, java, node.js

• A strong sense for the importance of documentation, and the importance of not having to learn things twice
• Ability to work in an agile product team environment and balance a diverse set of stakeholder requests