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Forward Deployed AI Engineer- Aerospace & Defense

Itasca, Illinois, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build aviation and defense software products directly with customers by embedding in their operations to design, ship, and maintain full-stack solutions.

Role type

Senior Forward Deployed Full-Stack Engineer

Builds

Production software services, APIs, data integrations, and web interfaces for fleet and asset management

Domain

Aerospace & Defense / Enterprise Asset Management

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Full-stack development, customer-facing delivery, end-to-end ownership, system integration, senior-level autonomy

Preferred skills

AI solution building, Aerospace & Defense domain experience, EAM solutions experience

Technologies

Modern general-purpose programming languages, Cloud, CI/CD, DevOps tools

Responsibilities

Embed with customers to learn operations and design software, Build and test full-stack features, Integrate with customer systems (ERP, CRM, IoT), Own delivery lifecycle from testing to operational reliability, Incorporate AI tools and capabilities into products, Feed field learnings back into the core product

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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