Software Engineer II

About this role

Jeppesen ForeFlight is seeking a Software Engineer to help with design and
delivery of scalable data pipelines, backend services, and cloud workflows for
aviation software products. This role requires strong technical judgment,
problem solving skills, and the ability to design reliable systems that process
critical aviation data. 

The ideal candidate brings experience with relational databases, and programming
languages (i.e. Python and/or Java), cloud infrastructure, workflow
orchestration, and production system ownership. A background or strong interest
in aviation is highly valued. 
 
The candidate should understand modern AI/ML systems, especially practical use
of LLMs, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation,
orchestration, and AI-assisted engineering. They should be comfortable
designing, integrating, testing, and operating AI-enabled software systems. 
 

KEY 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  

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:  

* 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 desi...