Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer- Aerospace & Defense

As a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer in our Aerospace & Defense business, you will build aviation products directly with our customers, embedding with airlines, MROs, OEMs, and defense operators to turn what you see into working software. This is engineering at the point of contact: the shortest path between a customer's problem and a product that solves it.

What You Will Do

You will build with the customer, ship across the stack, integrate into real operations, own delivery end to end, and bring AI into the work. You will also represent IFS credibly, being the technical voice customers trust.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will have the opportunity to change the status quo and make a real difference. You will work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment, and you will be part of a global, diverse environment where you can make a positive impact on the world.

Requirements

• Full-stack breadth: hands-on experience designing, building and shipping production software across the stack — backend services and APIs, data and integrations, and web front ends — with proficiency in modern general-purpose programming languages rather than a single domain framework.
• Customer-facing delivery: substantial experience working directly with customers, on site or embedded in their teams, to deploy, integrate, harden and support enterprise software in their own environment — including integration with systems such as ERP, CRM, IoT and legacy platforms.
• End-to-end ownership: a you-build-it, you-run-it mindset with real accountability for what you ship — quality and automated testing, CI/CD, cloud and DevOps, and security.
• Senior-level autonomy: a track record of owning significant pieces of delivery with little supervision, making sound architecture and shipping-quality calls under time pressure, and raising the standard of the engineers around you.
• Communication and judgement: excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences, comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and the instinct to ground technical decisions in direct customer evidence and business value.

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