Senior AI Governance Specialist

NXP Semiconductors; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors, a global leader in secure connectivity and AI-enabled innovations, invites a Senior AI Governance Specialist to join the Intelligent Transformation Office. You will shape and operationalize enterprise AI governance across the organization, balancing innovation with risk and compliance.

In this role you will partner with AI engineers, data scientists, lawyers, privacy, security and compliance teams, guiding governance from ideation to deployment.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

AI governance

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master's degree in AI/related field

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

Working closely with the AI Governance Lead, you will establish and mature best-in-class AI Governance capabilities across NXP. Your key responsibilities include:

• 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.

Your Team

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 Gove