You operate forward deployed — working shoulder-to-shoulder with A&D customers in their own environments — to ship AI-powered mobile capabilities that connect IFS to the systems that run their operations. This is a Principal-level role: you are the person others build toward, setting technical direction across product groups, carrying deep expertise in Applied AI and Forward Deployed Engineering, and taking
end-to-end ownership with a you-build-it, you-run-it mindset — from design and development through testing, deployment and operational reliability in the field.
What you’ll do
• Shape our next-generation mobility solution. Help define and deliver the next-generation mobile experience for aviation maintenance — a fast, reliable, field-ready product that engineers trust to do their most critical work, including where connectivity is constrained.
• Build AI into the product. Design and ship AI-powered product capabilities — model integration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic architectures and the evaluation harnesses and MLOps that keep them reliable in production. You build AI systems, not just use them.
• Use AI to build the product. Treat AI-assisted development and agentic tooling as core engineering capability. You raise the bar for how the team builds — measurably faster and better — and set the standard others adopt.
• Deploy forward. Embed with Aerospace & Defense customers to deploy, integrate and harden solutions in their environment. You connect IFS to the systems that run their business — ERP, CRM, IoT, telemetry, and legacy and mission systems — and own the solution architecture in real customer context, under real-world constraints.
• Own delivery end to end. Design, develop, test, deploy and operate across the full stack in modern general-purpose languages. You own quality through automated testing, manage delivery through CI/CD, and ensure operational reliability in cloud, edge and mobile environments.
• Lead as a Principal. Drive technical strategy across product groups, make the architecture and shipping-quality calls others defer, mentor engineers, and lift the AI and forward-deployment practice of the wider organisation. Represent IFS credibly in front of customers and partners.
• Anchor to the customer. Ground technical decisions in direct customer evidence and business value. You understand the A&D domain deeply enough to know which problems are worth solving and how AI changes the answer.