Forward-Deployed AI Engineer – Aerospace & Defense

IFS; Itasca, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

401K with Company contribution

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance and disability benefits

Tuition assistance

Community involvement and volunteering

Job summary

IFS is a global software leader delivering AI-powered enterprise solutions for aerospace and defense. We embed engineers with customers to ship practical software that solves real operations problems in challenging environments.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll own end-to-end delivery across the stack, collaborate with customers on site, and drive adoption of AI-enabled capabilities while navigating tight deadlines and regulated contexts.

Qualifications

• Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with direct customer exposure.
• Experience across backend, APIs, data models and web interfaces.
• Experience with AI-powered solutions is a strong advantage.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Embed with aerospace & defense customers—on site—to learn operations and ship software.
• Design, build and test full-stack features across services, data and UI.
• Integrate IFS with ERP, CRM, IoT and legacy systems.
• Own delivery end-to-end with automated testing, CI/CD and reliability.
• Apply AI tooling and bring learnings back into the product.

Skills

Full-stack

Customer delivery

End-to-end ownership

Senior autonomy

Communication skills

Travel willingness

Job description

IFS is a global software leader delivering AI-powered enterprise solutions for aerospace and defense. We embed engineers with customers to ship practical software that solves real operations problems in challenging environments.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you’ll own end-to-end delivery across the stack, collaborate with customers on site, and drive adoption of AI-enabled capabilities while navigating tight deadlines and regulated contexts.