Software Engineer II

Jeppesen ForeFlight is hiring a Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable data pipelines, backend services, and cloud workflows for aviation software products. The role builds reliable AI-enabled systems for processing aviation data and integrates AI capabilities into aviation products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build backend/data systems that support AI-enabled aviation workflows
• Work with structured and unstructured data to support search, classification, extraction, enrichment, and decision-support use cases
• Build pipelines and orchestration workflows using Apache Airflow, AWS Batch, EC2, and related cloud services
• Develop evaluation approaches for LLM/agent behavior, including quality checks, regression tests, human review, and operational monitoring
• Collaborate with product, data, mobile, and backend teams to bring AI capabilities into aviation products safely and reliably

Requirements:

• 2-4 years of experience
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages
• Understanding of relational databases, SQL, schema design, and data modeling
• Experience with AWS services such as Batch, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, or similar infrastructure
• Practical understanding of AI/ML concepts, especially LLMs, agents, RAG, prompts, embeddings, model/tool orchestration, and evaluation
• Ability to design reliable production systems with observability, testing, and operational support
• Strong interest in aviation and aviation technology
• Experience building agentic workflows or LLM-powered applications
• Experience with Apache Airflow or comparable workflow orchestration tools
• Experience evaluating AI behavior for accuracy, reliability, safety, and regressions
• Aviation, geospatial, weather, navigation, or flight operations domain experience