Lead AI Solutions Systems Engineer

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Job Description:

Airbus Digital is looking for a Lead AI Solutions Systems Engineer to join the team. This role can be based in Herndon, VA, Atlanta, GA, Sunnyvale, CA or Mobile, AL.

Meet the Team:

As a multinational company with a global footprint, our business needs protection from security threats and assurance that our end-users (employees, customers and suppliers) have access to the tools and data they need, when they need it. Our partners depend on us to be reliable and secure. Our information management professionals are highly motivated, dynamic and diverse - we value collaboration, teamwork, solidarity, helping each other, achieving results and always putting Airbus first.

Your Working Environment:

The Washington, D.C. metro area is home to multiple Airbus offices: In our nation’s capital you will find the Airbus Experience Center, a collection of interactive, multimedia exhibitions highlighting the extensive role the company plays in the aviation, aerospace and defense industries in the U.S. and around the world. The D.C. area is also home to our regional corporate headquarters – located adjacent to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) - it makes flying in a breeze!

The Lead AI Solutions Systems Engineer  is the lead technical architect and solution designer in the North America AI and Advanced analytics Product Service Line. This role will support the Head of digital AI and Advanced analytics to drive the technical strategy, data modeling, and high-level solution design from proof-of-concept (PoC) to industrialization. While the European program AgentAiR drives the end-to-end technology and harnessing framework (from platforms and patterns to change management), the North American node positions itself as the reference partner for business value qualification and delivery securitization.

As a Lead AI Solutions Systems Engineer, you will act as a deeply technical, hands-on, and business-facing lead architect and builder. You will serve as the principal technical interlocutor for business stakeholders on what AI can credibly do, how to translate business problems into mathematical and data specifications, how to architect the integration layers, and how to build and bring systems safely to production.

Your Challenges:

1) Technical Solution Strategy & Opportunity Framing: 40%

• Evaluate the technical feasibility, data readiness, and infrastructural viability of proposed AI initiatives.

• Act as the principal technical translator, formalizing complex business problems and translating them into rigorous mathematical, data engineering, and algorithmic requirements.

• Define and design technical validation metrics, including ML quality, precision, recall, system latency, data bias, drift, and LLM safety/alignment safeguards.

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, helping them refine their goals and steer them toward highly viable, scalable AI architectures 

• Accompany the business throughout PoCs and their industrialization, from opportunity framing to production hand-over

2) High-Level Solution Architecture & Prototyping: 30%

• Shape the technical response: design solution blueprints, evaluate build-vs-buy trade-offs, and design staging plans.

• Collaborate with the AI Lead Developer to define local software development guidelines, API schemas, and MLOps release pipelines

• Lead and frame assistant/agent coding practices across the