Senior AI Governance Specialist

NXP Semiconductors N.V.; Toulouse; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Career development opportunities

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors is seeking a Senior AI Governance Specialist to shape, operationalize and mature the enterprise AI Governance program. You will assess AI risks, advise initiatives, develop governance frameworks and translate evolving regulations into practical policies across the organization.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, Legal, Privacy and Compliance across global teams to balance innovation with responsible, trustworthy AI, reporting to the AI Governance Lead.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in a relevant field including AI, risk or governance.
• Fluency in English and ability to engage with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate AI use-case governance across legal, risk, privacy and product teams.
• Perform AI risk assessments and compile risk reports.
• Develop and monitor AI governance policies, standards and controls.
• Maintain AI inventory with ownership, documentation and risk classification.
• Embed governance across ideation, procurement, deployment and retirement.

Skills

AI governance

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Technical literacy

Education

Master's degree in AI / Engineering / IT / Law / Risk Management

Job description

Ready to join the Intelligent Transformation Office to help drive Transformation in a high-tech industry? Do you have a keen interest in ensuring that AI systems are fair, ethical, reliable, and transparent?

NXP Semiconductors enables a smarter, safer and more sustainable world through innovation. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is pushing boundaries in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has approximately 34,500 employees in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of $13.28 billion in 2025.

As NXP continues to accelerate its digital and AI transformation, we are looking for a Senior AI Governance Specialist to strengthen our Enterprise AI Governance team. In this role, you will help shape, operationalize and continuously mature NXP's enterprise AI Governance program. You will assess and monitor AI risks, advise AI initiatives, develop governance frameworks and controls, and help translate evolving regulatory requirements into practical ways of working. You will operate at the intersection of AI, business, technology, risk and regulation, helping NXP to balance innovation and business value with responsible and trustworthy AI. The ideal candidate combines functional risk expertise, technical literacy and organizational influence and is comfortable engaging with senior business stakeholders as well as AI engineers, data scientists, architects, Legal, Privacy, AI Security, Procurement and Compliance specialists.

Your responsibilities

• AI use-case governance: Coordinate inputs from legal, risk, privacy, product and technical teams. Identify, classify, assess and monitor AI use cases across their lifecycle, aligned with business and technology roadmaps.
• AI risk management: Preform AI risk assessments, collate risk reports and monitoring.
• AI Governance framework: Develop, continuously improve and monitor adherence to AI Governance policies, standards, controls and practical guidance.
• AI inventory and classification: Support the enterprise AI inventory with clear ownership, documentation, risk tiering and regulatory classification.
• Lifecycle governance: Embed proportionate governance from ideation and procurement through deployment, monitoring and retirement.
• Regulatory operationalization: Translate evolving AI regulations and standards into actionable policies, controls and evidence requirements.
• Generative and emerging AI: Assess and adapt governance for Generative AI, foundation models, LLMs, RAG and AI agents.
• Governance decisions and escalation: Facilitate governance reviews and ensure decisions, risk acceptances, exceptions and escalations are transparent and documented. Assists with governance and impact assessments and control mapping. Escalate identified governance gaps, risks or issues to senior management.
• Monitoring and reporting: Track AI Governance KPIs and KRIs, control effectiveness and remediation, and report insights to relevant forums.
• AI Governance tooling: Leverage governance tooling (selection, implementation, improvement) and advise stakeholders on its effective use.
• Assurance and evidence: Ensure traceability and documentation that demonstrate governance decisions, controls and regulatory readiness for auditability & defensibility
• AI literacy and adoption: Collaborate and contribute towards Responsible AI awareness and literacy across NXP through training, guidance and engagement.
• Continuous improvement: Evolve NXP's AI Governance practices and operating model as regulation, technology and industry practice develop.

You will report to the AI Governance Lead and be part of NXP's Intelligent Transformation Office. You will collaborate with stakeholders across the globe and work closely with business teams, AI Centers of Expertise, technology functions, Legal, IP, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Procurement, Compliance and other specialists.

Together, the team plays an important role in enabling NXP's transformation strategy and the responsible adoption of AI. You will join an energetic and collaborative environment that encourages constructive challenge, knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Your Profile

You are a pragmatic and influential professional who understands that successful AI Governance is about more than compliance. You can balance risk, regulation, technology, innovation and business value and translate complex requirements into practical solutions.

We are looking for:

• A master's degree or equivalent qualification in AI: Engineering, Information Technology, Law, Risk Management or a related field.
• 15-20 years of experience in global companies, in industry or services.
• Realizations in one or more relevant areas such as AI/ML Governance, technology risk, enterprise risk management, data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, digital ethics or technology law.
• Demonstrated successes in developing or implementing governance, risk or compliance frameworks in complex environment with successful business partnership
• Critical contributions with risk assessment, review and reporting, mitigation and control design, professional judgment with appropriate escalation, issue remediation, governance reporting and engagement with senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of Generative AI, AI models, RAG, agentic AI and other emerging AI technologies, and their associated governance considerations.
• Technical literacy in advanced AI systems and their lifecycle.
• Familiarity with evolving AI legislation, regulatory guidance and recognized AI Governance and risk management frameworks and standards such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001 and ISO/IEC 23894 are an advantage.
• Cross-functional influence and experience in operating model design.
• Solid competencies in process definition, coordination and improvement, and comfortable working with concepts, strong analytics and problem solving sills.
• Organization- and technology-savvy, with the curiosity to stay up to date.
• A reliable, accountable and proactive mindset: a structured, autonomous quick learner whose hands-on approach delivers results together with the project team.
• Cross-functional collaboration skills, excellent written and verbal communication, fluency in English.

What's in it for you?

• Play a key role in developing and maturing NXP's enterprise AI Governance program.
• Gain experience in a multinational and diverse company like NXP
• Get exposure to latest AI Governance development, work on global projects with experts
• Become a member of NXP Intelligent Transformation Office, driving the future of the organization, leveraging new technologies, partnering with our AI Centers of Expertise
• Flexible working environment with an informal culture, a can-do mentality and career development opportunities

Our offices: The Netherlands is home to our global headquarters (Eindhoven) along with two additional sites (Nijmegen, Delft) and includes a diverse team of over 2000 employees with 51 different nationalities focused on R&D, manufacturing, product development, business operations, legal and sales.

France is home across 5 different locations in Toulouse, Sophia-Antipolis, Caen, Grenoble, Paris-Saclay of more than 1000 employees across 46 different nationalities.

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