Sr. Principal AI/ML Data Management & Governance Lead
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Job Description
Data generated by electric vehicles, manufacturing operations, and enterprise systems is rich and diverse with increasing potential to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML solutions at scale. Lucid’s AI organization is leading the innovation and in-vehicle AI product solutions and is seeking a Lucid’s AI/ML organization is seeking a Sr. Principal AI/ML Data Management & Governance Lead. This position will strategize, execute, and maintain master data management and data readiness for Lucid’s AI operational solutions and product enablement. You will architect and build the automated "control plane" that ensures our Data, AI, and Autonomous Agents operate in a safe, well-governed manner. This role bridges the gap between policy and code.
How We Work: We balance hard work and innovation through meaningful, in-office calibration. Please note, this role is based out of Newark, CA or select remote work options.
You Will:
- Design Unified Governance Architecture across four critical domains:
- Core Data Integrity & Lineage:
- Create federated governance models enabling teams to own data products while adhering to global standards.
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- Architect automated metadata harvesting systems for a central data catalog with rich context tagging.
- Implement sovereignty and traceability frameworks to meet strict location-based regulations and enable end-to-end data lineage.
- Semantic Governance & Ontologies:
- Define and enforce enterprise ontologies and semantic standards as the “source of truth” for AI systems.
- Establish governance models for seamless AI agent interoperability.
- AI Explainability & Forensic Safety:
- Build Explainable AI (XAI) frameworks linking decisions to training data versions and metadata.
- Design forensic guardrails to reconstruct decision states and prevent PII leakage or hallucinations.
- Agentic AI Controls:
- Architect identity frameworks for non-human agents with strict “least privilege” principles.
- Define sandboxing standards for agent interactions with external tools to prevent unintended state changes.
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You Bring:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other field, Masters Degree is preferred
- 8+ years of experience with a completed Masters Degree
- 12+ years of experience with a completed Bachelors Degree
- Strategic Leadership: Ability to define governance roadmaps with C-suite stakeholders and deliver foundational code.
- High-Stakes Experience: Proven track record in industries where data failure impacts safety or regulatory compliance (e.g., Pharma, Healthcare, Defense).
- Technical Expertise:
- Knowledge graph architectures and semantic layers for AI data standardization.
- Policy engines (e.g., OPA) and “Policy as Code” frameworks within IaC workflows.
- Enterprise-scale data catalogs and automated lineage systems (e.g., OpenLineage).
- Familiarity with modern AI stacks: vector search, LLM orchestration, and RAG architectures.
- Multi-cloud security fluency with focus on data residency, encryption, and zero-trust architectures.
Additional Compensation and Benefits: Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. (Cash or equity incentive awards, if any, will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.)
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