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Principal AI Engineer, Aerospace & Defense

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2 days ago
Remote, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver a reliable, field-ready mobile experience for aviation maintenance, including environments with constrained connectivity.
  • Design and ship production AI capabilities using model integration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic architectures, evaluation, and MLOps.
  • Use AI-assisted development and agentic tooling to improve engineering productivity and establish team standards.
  • Deploy, integrate, and harden solutions in customer environments, connecting IFS with ERP, CRM, IoT, telemetry, legacy, and mission systems.
  • Own solution architecture and the full delivery lifecycle from design and development through testing, deployment, and operations.
  • Drive technical strategy across product groups, make architecture and shipping-quality decisions, mentor engineers, and grow the forward-deployment and AI practices.
  • Ground technical decisions in customer evidence and business value and represent IFS with customers and partners.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience using AI-assisted and agentic development tools and building production AI capabilities with ML integration, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, evaluation, testing, and MLOps.
  • Proven experience building and shipping production mobile applications and setting technical direction for a mobile product; native iOS experience is strongly preferred.
  • Recognized principal-level technical authority with experience driving strategy and delivery across multiple teams or product groups.
  • Substantial experience deploying, integrating, and operating enterprise software directly in customer environments, including ERP, CRM, IoT, and legacy-system integrations.
  • Strong full-lifecycle engineering foundations across design, development, quality, testing, cloud, DevOps, security, and modern general-purpose programming languages.
  • Experience with Aerospace & Defense organizations or asset, maintenance, MRO, fleet-readiness, EAM, field-service, or maintenance-management solutions is preferred.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience is preferred.
  • Experience with agile delivery and globally distributed teams is preferred.

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with company contribution.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Tuition assistance and community involvement and volunteering events.
  • Flexible and hybrid work opportunities.

Tech Stack

iOS

Categories

AI ApplicationsForward DeployedMobile
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About IFS

5,001-10,000 employees
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