AI Lead Developer Aerospace

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

As AI Lead Developer you will be responsible for;

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.

Location: hybrid in Herndon VA (3 days office min)

Salary Range: $145000 - $175000

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

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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