LEAD ANALYST - LEAD ENGINEER - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - AI & Machine Learning Intelligent Avionics

Southwest Research Institute; Oklahoma City (OK); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Southwest Research Institute’s Strategic Aerospace Department seeks a senior AI/ML research lead to advance aerospace mission systems, embedded avionics, and real-time edge computing across strategic platforms.

You will architect physics-informed and data-driven approaches, perform system identification, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics, and transition models to deployable hardware using C/C++, Python.

Formación

• Requires a Bachelor's or Master's in EE or related field.
• 12+ years in advanced AI/ML, data science, or autonomy with leadership.
• Experience deploying ML to embedded hardware and real-time platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and validate AI/ML algorithms for embedded avionics.
• Prototype software in Python and C/C++, targeting real-time hardware.
• Lead cross-disciplinary reviews, experiments, and demonstrations.
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable AI architectures.

Conocimientos

Python

C/C++

Machine Learning

Edge computing

Real-time systems

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

AI/ML degree preferred

Herramientas

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Descripción del empleo

Who We Are:

The Strategic Aerospace Department in the Defense & Intelligence Solutions Division provides the USAF with engineering services that increases the warfighters capabilities specifically for the bombers, tankers and heavies platforms.

Objectives of this Role:

Lead advanced AI/machine learning (ML) research and development for aerospace mission systems, embedded avionics, intelligent sensing, autonomy, and real-time edge computing across the Department's strategic avionics portfolio. Develop physics-informed and data-driven ML approaches for sensor fusion, system identification, anomaly detection, prediction, decision support, and adaptive mission-system capabilities. Architect, prototype, and transition AI/ML algorithms from research environments into deployable embedded hardware using C/C++, Python, heterogeneous processors, and real-time software frameworks. Provide senior technical leadership for multidisciplinary integration of AI-enabled hardware/software into complex avionics systems, including laboratory, SIL/HIL, subsystem, and platform-level verification. Advance Department AI capabilities through technical strategy, customer engagement, proposals, publications, technology demonstrations, mentoring, and transition of research into funded aerospace programs.

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:

Design, implement, optimize, and validate AI/ML algorithms for embedded aerospace and avionics applications, including physics-informed ML, sensor fusion, inference, prediction, classification, and autonomy. Develop production-quality Python and C/C++ software and deploy trained models to real-time embedded compute platforms; profile latency, memory, power, determinism, reliability, and mission performance. Integrate AI algorithms with avionics hardware, sensors, communications, mission software, and test assets; develop and execute SIL/HIL experiments, data pipelines, verification methods, and performance assessments. Collaborate with electrical, embedded software, systems, RF, mechanical, test, cybersecurity, and flight-domain engineers to solve complex AI integration, interface, timing, assurance, and qualification challenges. Lead technical reviews, trade studies, experiments, customer demonstrations, proposals, white papers, and technical reports; mentor engineers and establish reusable AI/ML architectures, tools, and engineering practices.

Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelors or a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Physics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, or related engineering or technical degree field. Graduate degrees in AI or Machine Learning or a closely related discipline are strongly preferred.
• 12+ years: Progressive engineering experience developing advanced AI/ML, data science, intelligent systems, or autonomy solutions, with demonstrated technical leadership and successful transition of algorithms into operational hardware/software.
• 12+ years: Proven expertise in physics-informed machine learning, scientific ML, system identification, reduced-order modeling, estimation, optimization, uncertainty quantification, or hybrid physics/data-driven methods.
• 12+ years: Expert-level Python and C/C++ development with hands-on experience using modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or equivalent, and deploying models to embedded CPU/GPU/FPGA or other edge-compute hardware.
• 12+ years: Demonstrated aerospace/defense avionics experience integrating AI-enabled capabilities with sensors, mission systems, embedded electronics, real-time interfaces, SIL/HIL test environments, and verification/validation processes.
• A valid/clear driver's license is required.

Special Requirements:

Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen.

Job Locations:

San Antonio, Texas Or Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

For more information about this division, visit the Defense & Intelligence Solutions home page.

An Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and veteran status.