AI Lead Developer - Aerospace

Altentechnologyusa · Herndon, Virginia · Engineering

Posted 2026-09-01

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Key Responsibilities:

Lead design and development of enterprise-scale AI systems integrated with broader IT landscape (AWS, GCP, Palantir).

Build RAG pipelines and multi-agent systems, driving evolution toward autonomous Agentic AI.

Drive AI projects from PoC to production (scaling, CI/CD, MLOps, monitoring).

Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentorship to internal/external teams.

Act as technical advisor bridging business requirements and technical feasibility.

Implement AI governance guardrails for data privacy and hallucination prevention.

Education and Experience:

6+ years in Software/Data Engineering with proven track record deploying ML/AI systems in production.

Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline

Qualifications:

Expertise in Generative AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, and prompt engineering.

Expert Python proficiency and modern software architecture (APIs, microservices, Kubernetes).

Experience with GCP preferred (AWS or comparable cloud platforms acceptable). Palantir Foundry is a plus.

Proven ability to lead technical teams and present architectures to executive audiences.

Experience with AI Agent frameworks (LangGraph, ADK) and classical ML is a plus.

Salary Range: $145,000 - $190,000

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

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