Forward Deployed AI Engineer- Aerospace & Defense

• 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.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as the work requires.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI solutions (strongly preferred): shipping AI-powered capabilities in products — model integration, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, evaluation and testing — and/or using AI-assisted and agentic development tooling as a core part of your workflow.
• Experience working in or with Aerospace & Defense organisations, or on solutions for asset, maintenance, MRO or fleet-readiness management.
• Experience with other enterprise asset management (EAM), field service or maintenance-management solutions.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience of agile delivery and of working with globally distributed teams.

• 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

M/F/Disabled/Vet VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

We are a Drug-Free Workplace.

Interested candidates should apply at: www.ifs.com/about/careers-at-ifs

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Equal Opportunity Employer

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents.

Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of ServiceTM.

Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but also on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact.

We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

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As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

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