Technical Lead, AI-Enabled Application Development
RTX Corporation17 days ago
Tucson, AZ, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$108k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of AI-enabled enterprise applications.
- Build full-stack web applications using Angular and TypeScript on the frontend and Java-based services and RESTful APIs on the backend.
- Integrate applications with LLM platforms, enterprise data sources, and internal systems, including conversational, chatbot, and agentic AI capabilities.
- Own complex application-development challenges from initial technical evaluation through implementation and production support.
- Mentor, coach, and conduct code reviews for software developers while contributing directly to application design and development.
- Establish software engineering practices covering architecture, reusable components, automated testing, source control, and continuous integration and deployment.
- Help define technical roadmaps, prioritize enhancements, address technical debt, and identify infrastructure requirements.
- Troubleshoot performance, integration, reliability, and cybersecurity issues and communicate technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership across application-development teams and collaborate with product owners, solution architects, AI/ML specialists, data engineers, and enterprise architects.
Requirements
- A university degree or equivalent experience and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and at least 5 years of experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing full-stack enterprise web applications.
- Experience with Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS for modern responsive web applications.
- Experience developing Java backend applications and RESTful APIs using Spring Boot or similar frameworks.
- Understanding of object-oriented programming, software design patterns, API integration, and application architecture.
- Technical leadership experience guiding application design, mentoring developers, and contributing in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under the program or contract.
- Preferred experience with AI-enabled applications, conversational interfaces, chatbots, LLM integration, prompt management, conversation context, and response handling.
- Preferred knowledge of RAG, semantic search, enterprise data integration, authentication, authorization, and secure API integration.
- Preferred experience with Python, .NET, Oracle, MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, containerization, cloud-native architectures, distributed services, cybersecurity remediation, and Matillion or other ETL tools.
- Preferred familiarity with JSON, XML, YAML, and application integration formats, along with strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, influencing, and conflict-resolution skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Tucson, Arizona, with onsite work typically required one to three times per month and occasional work in factory or classified environments.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, 401(k) matching, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, the Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, subject to applicable conditions and performance.
- The application window is expected to close approximately 40 days after the October 26, 2026 posting date, subject to change.
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About RTX Corporation
RTX Corporation builds aerospace and defense systems through its Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon businesses, serving commercial aviation, the U.S. government, and allied militaries. Its products range from aircraft engines and avionics to radars, missiles, and command-and-control software, sold via long-term OEM programs and defense contracts. Formed in 2020 by the Raytheon–United Technologies merger, RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and trades on the NYSE as RTX.