Staff Applied AI Engineer, Agentic Systems

The role

This person will design and build agentic AI systems that reason over diverse information sources to assist aviation professionals. They will develop architectures for tool use, planning, and orchestration, and turn complex data into usable knowledge.

What you will do

• Design and implement agent architectures involving tool use, planning, orchestration, state management, and memory.
• Develop effective context engineering strategies.
• Make architectural decisions about autonomous agents, explicit workflows, or conventional algorithms.
• Design tool interfaces and structured model interactions.
• Translate domain knowledge into retrieval systems, structured representations, and agent-accessible tools.
• Apply information retrieval, extraction, and knowledge modeling techniques to data.
• Develop rigorous evaluations for AI-powered systems.
• Investigate system-level failures across retrieval, context, reasoning, and tool execution.
• Develop reliable services and asynchronous workflows.
• Integrate model inference, retrieval systems, and external data services into production applications.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Substantive applied AI experience.
• Information modeling instincts.
• Experimental discipline.
• Independent technical judgment.
• Clear communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python, LangGraph, BAML, AWS Bedrock, PostgreSQL/pgvector, and event-driven AWS infrastructure.
• Aviation, aerospace, or another technically complex, safety-critical domain.
• Computational linguistics, NLP, information science, or knowledge representation.
• Designing systems that reason over technical documentation, regulations, or heterogeneous operational data.
• Developing or operating distributed, event-driven, and containerized services.
• Building AI systems in which traceability, evidence, and human oversight are important.

Benefits

• 100% of employee medical premiums covered; 25% for dependents
• 3 weeks PTO
• 13+ paid company holidays
• 401(k) offered

Before you apply

• Can only hire U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, lawful permanent residents, or individuals granted asylum or refugee status).
• Unable to provide visa sponsorship or support visa transfers.
• All work must be performed in the United States.

About the company

Beacon AI is a team of aviators, engineers, and operators building an AI platform to make flying safer, more efficient, and more capable. They operate with small, focused teams that own what they build and ship quickly.