Forward Deployed Engineer – Aerospace and Defense

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About the role

  • Forward Deployed Engineer building full-stack, AI-driven aviation software for IFS Aerospace & Defense customers. Embedding at customer sites and integrating enterprise systems into mission-ready operations.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with Aerospace & Defense customers on their sites and inside their systems to understand operations
  • Design and ship software collaboratively with customers
  • Build and test full-stack features, including services, APIs, data, persistence, integrations and web interfaces
  • Connect IFS to ERP, CRM, IoT, telemetry, legacy and mission systems
  • Own solution architecture in real customer contexts
  • Manage automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, observability and operational reliability across cloud and customer environments
  • Use AI-assisted and agentic development tooling and bring AI-powered product capabilities into customer environments
  • Feed field learnings back into the core product and roadmap
  • Collaborate with product management and engineering teams
  • Act as a trusted technical voice for customers and partners

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience designing, building and shipping production software across the stack, including backend services and APIs, data and integrations, and web front ends
  • Proficiency in modern general-purpose programming languages
  • 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
  • Experience integrating systems such as ERP, CRM, IoT and legacy platforms
  • Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, cloud and DevOps, and security
  • Track record of owning significant pieces of delivery with little supervision
  • Ability to make sound architecture and shipping-quality decisions under time pressure
  • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites as the work requires
  • Experience building AI solutions is strongly preferred, including model integration, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic architectures, evaluation and testing, and/or AI-assisted and agentic development tooling
  • Experience working in or with Aerospace & Defense organisations, or on asset, maintenance, MRO or fleet-readiness solutions
  • Experience with enterprise asset management, field service or maintenance-management solutions
  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with agile delivery and globally distributed teams
  • VEVRAA Federal Contractor; Drug-Free Workplace

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

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudERPIoT

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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