Principal AI Engineer – Aerospace & Defense
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Principal AI Engineer building AI-powered mobile maintenance software for IFS, whose enterprise platform serves airlines, MROs, OEMs, and defense operators. Deploying and operating solutions directly in customer environments.
Responsibilities:
- Define and deliver the next-generation mobile experience for aviation maintenance
- Design and ship AI-powered product capabilities, including model integration, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, evaluation harnesses and MLOps
- Use AI-assisted development and agentic tooling to improve engineering speed and quality
- Embed with Aerospace & Defense customers to deploy, integrate and harden solutions in their environments
- Connect IFS to ERP, CRM, IoT, telemetry, legacy and mission systems
- Own solution architecture in real customer contexts and under real-world constraints
- Design, develop, test, deploy and operate across the full stack
- Own quality through automated testing and manage delivery through CI/CD
- Ensure operational reliability across cloud, edge and mobile environments
- Drive technical strategy across product groups and make architecture and shipping-quality decisions
- Mentor engineers and strengthen the wider AI and forward-deployment practice
- Represent IFS with customers and partners
- Ground technical decisions in customer evidence and business value
Requirements:
- Demonstrated, hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted and agentic development tooling for building products
- Experience shipping production AI capabilities using ML integration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic architectures, evaluation and testing, and MLOps
- Proven track record building and shipping production mobile applications
- Native iOS development experience strongly preferred
- Proven Principal-level impact as a recognised technical authority driving strategy and delivery across multiple teams or product groups
- Substantial experience deploying, integrating and operating enterprise software directly in customer environments
- Experience integrating with ERP, CRM, IoT and legacy systems
- Strong foundations across design and development, quality and testing, cloud and DevOps, and security
- Proficiency in modern general-purpose programming languages beyond any single domain framework
- End-to-end ownership mindset and excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences
- Track record of growing the capability of engineers and teams
- Experience in or with Aerospace & Defense organisations, or asset, maintenance, MRO or fleet-readiness management solutions is nice to have
- Experience with enterprise asset management, field service or maintenance-management solutions is nice to have
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience is nice to have
- Experience with agile delivery and globally distributed teams is nice to have
Benefits:
- Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance
- 401K with Company contribution
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Tuition assistance
- Community involvement and volunteering events
- Flexible and hybrid work opportunities
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