Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer for Aerospace & Defense

IFS; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

401K with Company contribution

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community involvement and volunteering

Job summary

IFS Aerospace & Defense helps the world's leading airlines, MROs, OEMs and defense operators keep fleets mission-ready by managing maintenance, assets and service lifecycles at scale. We build software closer to the operations it serves, in shorter cycles, and increasingly with AI.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you embed with customers on their sites, own end-to-end delivery across the stack, and bring AI-powered capabilities into live environments while shaping the product roadmap for

Qualifications

• Full-stack breadth across backend, APIs, data and web front ends with production experience.
• Direct customer-facing delivery, on-site embedding or in customer environments.
• End-to-end ownership for delivery, testing, CI/CD, cloud and DevOps.
• Senior autonomy to own significant pieces of delivery under time pressure.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical audiences and good judgement.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Build with the customer: embed on site to learn operations and design software with them.
• Ship across the stack: design, build and test features spanning backend, data and UI.
• Integrate into real operations: connect to ERP/CRM/IoT and legacy systems.
• Own delivery end to end: automate testing, CI/CD, deployment and reliability.
• Bring AI into the work: leverage AI tooling and capabilities in the product.
• Turn field work into product: feed site learnings into roadmap for all customers.
• Represent IFS credibly: explain trade-offs and work with customer engineers.

Skills

Full-stack breadth

Customer-facing delivery

End-to-end ownership

Senior autonomy

Communication & judgement

Willing to travel

Tools

AI experience

Aerospace & Defense domain

Enterprise software integration

Agile delivery

Distributed teams

Job description

IFS Aerospace & Defense helps the world's leading airlines, MROs, OEMs and defense operators keep fleets mission-ready by managing maintenance, assets and service lifecycles at scale. We build software closer to the operations it serves, in shorter cycles, and increasingly with AI.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you embed with customers on their sites, own end-to-end delivery across the stack, and bring AI-powered capabilities into live environments while shaping the product roadmap for