Requisition Number: 78191

The company built on breakthroughs. ​
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Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible. ​

How do we do this? With our people. They break through limitations and expectations – not once in a career, but every day. They help move our company, and the world, forward. ​

​At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more.​

​ Come break through with us.

Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with:

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

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

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