AI & Emerging Tech Research Lead - Flexible Work Options

Hitachi, Ltd.; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Well-being and care

Paid and unpaid leave

Flexible work options

Benefits that support financial safety

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Kraków is seeking an Innovation Research Lead to drive proactive AI and emerging digital technology research. You will conduct horizon scanning, evaluate internal innovation needs, and deliver concise, actionable outputs for decision-makers.

You will coordinate analysts, maintain reusable knowledge bases, and translate complex findings into clear recommendations that shape the company’s innovation strategy across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in emerging digital technology research or AI in an enterprise context.
• Strong research and analytical skills across AI, data and digital technologies.
• Experience producing technology landscape comparisons, feasibility assessments, and vendor evaluations.
• Familiarity with innovation lifecycle concepts and frameworks: insights, validation, PoC, delivery.
• Ability to coordinate input from multiple contributors and guide junior analysts.
• Excellent documentation and fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Lead horizon scanning research, emerging technology scouting, technology foresight, and market option comparisons for approved topics; produce concise landscape summaries.
• Support assessment of internal Innovation-as-a-Service needs by translating external trends into evidence-based inputs; coordinate inputs from market and internal options.
• Conduct feasibility assessments with stakeholders; outline validation options where further investigation is recommended.
• Deliver outputs in suitable formats (reports, matrices, knowledge-base entries, presentations).
• Produce structured evidence packages with landscape summaries, option comparisons, feasibility findings, and validation outlines.
• Maintain and expand knowledge bases, trend overviews, reusable profiles, and trend reports.

Skills

AI research

Technology scouting

Technology foresight

Market intelligence

Team coordination

Job description

Hitachi Energy in Kraków is seeking an Innovation Research Lead to drive proactive AI and emerging digital technology research. You will conduct horizon scanning, evaluate internal innovation needs, and deliver concise, actionable outputs for decision-makers.

You will coordinate analysts, maintain reusable knowledge bases, and translate complex findings into clear recommendations that shape the company’s innovation strategy across multiple locations.