IFS

Forward Deployed AI Engineer- Aerospace & Defense

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8 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with Aerospace & Defense customers to understand their operations and design and ship software directly with them.
  • Build and test full-stack features spanning backend services and APIs, data and persistence, integrations, and web interfaces.
  • Connect IFS with ERP, CRM, IoT, telemetry, legacy, and mission systems and own solution architecture in customer environments.
  • Own delivery end to end, including automated testing, deployment, observability, operational reliability, and production support.
  • Use AI-assisted and agentic development tooling and help deliver AI-powered capabilities into customer environments.
  • Feed customer-site insights back into the core product and roadmap in partnership with product management and engineering.
  • Act as a trusted technical representative for customers, partners, engineers, and operations leaders.
  • Travel to customer sites as required.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production software across the full stack using modern general-purpose programming languages.
  • Substantial experience working directly with customers or embedded teams to deploy, integrate, harden, and support enterprise software in customer environments.
  • Experience integrating systems such as ERP, CRM, IoT, and legacy platforms.
  • End-to-end ownership of production software, including quality, automated testing, CI/CD, cloud, DevOps, and security.
  • Senior-level autonomy, architecture judgment, delivery ownership, and the ability to raise engineering standards with little supervision.
  • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences, sound judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and business-oriented decision-making.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites.
  • Strongly preferred experience shipping AI-powered capabilities involving model integration, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, evaluation, and testing, or using AI-assisted and agentic development tools.
  • Experience with Aerospace & Defense organizations or asset, maintenance, MRO, or fleet-readiness management solutions is preferred.
  • Experience with enterprise asset management, field service, or maintenance-management solutions is preferred.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 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.
  • 401K with company contribution.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Tuition assistance.
  • Community involvement and volunteering events.

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About IFS

5,001-10,000 employees

IFS builds IFS Cloud, an enterprise suite covering ERP, EAM, FSM, SCM, and project/service management for manufacturers and asset‑intensive organizations. Its business model centers on software subscriptions and services for cloud and hybrid deployments, plus industry-specific modules and consulting. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, the company is privately held under EQT ownership and operates globally across industrial and service-focused markets.

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