Teams at Sumitomo Electric U.S.A., Inc.

Drive sales growth for cutting tools across the Greater Chicago territory by developing customer and distributor relationships, recommending tooling solutions, presenting products, updating CRM records, and supporting customer follow-up. The role requires CNC and metal-cutting expertise, analysis of tooling needs, test data and market feedback for engineering teams, and some overnight travel.

Owns the technical roadmap for hyperscale AI infrastructure and GPU-cluster solutions involving CPO, silicon photonics, optical interconnect, networking, and compute architectures. Evaluates industry technology and competitive roadmaps, guides R&D priorities, develops ecosystem partnerships, advises leadership, and represents the company at conferences, standards bodies, and co-innovation forums. The role requires strong systems expertise, executive communication, external influence, and strategic technology forecasting.