Senior AI Systems Engineer - Architect AI for Aviation

BETA TECHNOLOGIES; South Burlington (VT); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs and PSUs

Onsite healthcare

Paid parental leave

Daily lunch

Flight lessons

Job summary

BETA Technologies’ South Burlington, VT–based Advanced Systems team seeks a Senior AI Systems Engineer to architect and guide AI-enabled engineering systems that accelerate aircraft development from concept through flight test. The role supports hybrid work with monthly VT visits, and may include Raleigh, NC onsite collaboration.

You will turn requirements and workflows into AI capabilities, build agents, data pipelines, model services, and deployment infrastructure to enable informed decisions

Qualifications

• Five or more years delivering AI, ML, data, software, or complex systems into production with architecture ownership.
• Experience integrating models, agents, retrieval, APIs, data pipelines, and enterprise data sources.
• Strong Python development, cloud deployment, containers, automated testing, and source control.
• Ability to explain limitations, residual risk, and recommendations to leadership.
• Must be a US Person to be considered for the role.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and roadmap for AI-enabled engineering and program decision-support systems.
• Translate workflows into AI capabilities with clear users, inputs, outputs, and interfaces.
• Architect agents, data pipelines, model services, APIs, and deployment infrastructure.
• Integrate controlled data and tools with access control, provenance, and auditability.
• Establish evaluation methods for accuracy, grounding, latency, and cost.
• Develop AI capabilities that speed and improve aircraft development decisions.
• Coordinate engineers and stakeholders across AI/ML, IT, cybersecurity, and legal.
• Deploy and sustain reusable capabilities and monitor performance.

Skills

AI systems engineering

Python programming

Cloud deployment

Containerization

Data pipelines

System architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

BETA Technologies’ South Burlington, VT–based Advanced Systems team seeks a Senior AI Systems Engineer to architect and guide AI-enabled engineering systems that accelerate aircraft development from concept through flight test. The role supports hybrid work with monthly VT visits, and may include Raleigh, NC onsite collaboration.

You will turn requirements and workflows into AI capabilities, build agents, data pipelines, model services, and deployment infrastructure to enable informed decisions