Applied AI Engineer (Hybrid)

RTX; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX is seeking an experienced Applied AI Engineer to design, build, evaluate, and deploy production‑grade AI/ML solutions across RTX enterprise systems. You will collaborate with AI architects, platform engineers, data teams, and product groups to move AI from concept to production with measurable business impact.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering, understanding AI behavior, failure modes, and building robust, secure AI solutions within a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience with AI/ML in production or production‑like environments.
• 3+ years hands‑on experience developing or deploying AI/ML solutions beyond experimentation.
• Proficient in Python and delivering production‑quality software.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production‑grade AI and ML solutions across RTX.
• Build AI agents and workflows that reason, use tools, and interact with enterprise data.
• Develop retrieval and context‑engineering solutions using embeddings and enterprise search.
• Integrate AI with enterprise applications via APIs and standard interfaces.
• Evaluate models for quality, reliability, latency, cost, and security.
• Produce reusable AI components and APIs for end‑to‑end solutions.
• Diagnose AI system behavior with telemetry, traces, and user feedback.
• Collaborate with AI Architecture, Platform Engineering, Data, and cybersecurity teams.

Skills

Python programming

Production‑quality software

Generative AI

API integration

CI/CD / containerization

ML fundamentals

Software development practices

Education

University Degree in CS/AI/ML/Engineering

Advanced Degree in related field

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

IBM watsonx

AWS Bedrock

Microsoft AI platforms

n8n

Job description

Location

US-CT-FARMINGTON-0004 ~ 4 Farm Springs Rd ~ 4 FARM SPRINGS

Date Posted

2026-09-17

Country

United States of America

Location

US-CT-FARMINGTON-0004 ~ 4 Farm Springs Rd ~ 4 FARM SPRINGS

Position Role Type

Hybrid

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements

This job requires a U.S. Person. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons. For a complete definition of “U.S. Person” go here. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

Security Clearance Type

None/Not Required

Security Clearance Status

Not Required

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services team:

We are seeking an experienced Applied AI Engineer to design, build, evaluate, and deploy production-grade Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions that address complex business and engineering problems across RTX.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands‑on AI/ML expertise and experience applying Generative AI, large language models, retrieval, and agentic AI to real‑world problems. You will work closely with business teams, AI Architects, AI Platform Engineers, data teams, product teams, and other engineering organizations to take AI solutions from early concepts and prototypes through production deployment and measurable business outcomes. This is a hands‑on engineering role for someone who understands how AI systems behave, how they fail, and how to engineer reliable solutions around them.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and deploy production‑grade AI and ML solutions using the appropriate combination of traditional machine learning, Generative AI, retrieval‑augmented generation, agentic AI, and software engineering.
• Build AI agents and intelligent workflows that reason, use tools, interact with enterprise applications and data, and execute complex multi‑step processes with appropriate human oversight.
• Develop retrieval and context‑engineering solutions using enterprise data, embeddings, vector and enterprise search, knowledge sources, prompts, memory, and other grounding techniques.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, data sources, and tools using standard interfaces and emerging interoperability approaches such as Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Evaluate and select models and solution approaches based on quality, reliability, latency, cost, security, scalability, and business requirements, and develop systematic evaluation cases to measure solution performance.
• Develop production‑quality software, APIs, integrations, tools, and reusable AI components required to deliver end‑to‑end AI solutions while leveraging enterprise platform capabilities wherever appropriate.
• Diagnose and improve AI system behavior using evaluations, traces, telemetry, user feedback, and failure analysis, and address issues related to groundedness, task completion, robustness, and production reliability.
• Partner with AI Architecture, Platform Engineering, Data, Evaluation, Cybersecurity, and business teams to move solutions from experimentation into secure, scalable production environments.

What You Will Learn

• How AI and ML technologies are applied to complex business, engineering, manufacturing, and operational challenges across a global aerospace and defense enterprise.
• How Generative AI and agentic AI systems are engineered to securely interact with enterprise data, applications, APIs, tools, and workflows.
• How enterprise AI platforms provide reusable capabilities for models, agents, tools, identity, deployment, evaluation, and observability across multiple RTX business units.
• How to design and evaluate AI systems across commercial cloud, hybrid, on‑premises, and restricted computing environments.
• How emerging models, agent frameworks, interoperability standards, and AI engineering practices can be evaluated and applied to practical enterprise problems.
• How production feedback, evaluation, and operational telemetry can be used to continuously improve AI system quality and business outcomes.

Qualifications You Must Have

• A University Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related STEM discipline and a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• A minimum of 3 years of hands‑on experience developing, integrating, or deploying AI/ML solutions, including experience taking AI or ML capabilities beyond experimentation into production or production‑like environments.
• Software engineering experience, including hands‑on programming with Python and experience developing production‑quality, tested, maintainable software.
• Experience building applications using Generative AI and large language models, including prompt or context engineering, model integration, structured outputs, retrieval, or tool use.
• Experience integrating software with APIs, databases, enterprise applications, cloud services, or other external systems.
• Experience applying software development practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, containerization, and production deployment.
• Experience working with machine learning fundamentals, model evaluation, and the tradeoffs involved in selecting and applying AI models to business problems.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience building production AI agents, agentic workflows, or multi‑agent systems involving orchestration, tool use, state, memory, and human‑in‑the‑loop interaction.
• Experience with retrieval‑augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, enterprise search, knowledge graphs, or advanced context‑engineering techniques.
• Experience with AI frameworks or platforms such as LangGraph, CrewAI, IBM watsonx, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft AI platforms, n8n, or similar technologies.
• Experience with MCP, function or tool calling, secure enterprise integrations, or other agent interoperability patterns.
• Experience developing AI evaluation frameworks or using evaluation, tracing, observability, guardrails, and production monitoring to