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Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.\nAt IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.\nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. 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Join IFS.\n We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to embed directly with customers on IFS PSO, our enterprise scheduling and optimization platform (.NET 10/C# backend, Angular frontend) used to solve complex resource planning and scheduling problems at scale. This is a hands-on technical role that combines software engineering, applied optimization and direct customer engagement.\nYou will sit at the intersection of our optimization engine and our customers: modeling real-world planning problems, and shipping working solutions fast, embedded with customer teams under tight deadlines.\nThis role suits an engineer who wants to solve hard optimization problems in the field, work directly with customers, and feed what they learn back into the core product.\nWe're AI-first: you'll be expected to make full use of AI-assisted and agentic workflows day to day, and we're looking for someone genuinely enthusiastic about using them to model problems and ship solutions faster.\nKey Responsibilities\nPartner directly with customers to translate real-world scheduling and planning problems into optimization models.\n\nConfigure, extend, and debug the core scheduling engine and related components against live customer datasets.\n\nBuild and iterate on new solutions with customer teams, often under tight deadlines.\n\nFeed field learnings back to core product and engineering teams to improve the platform.\n\n Strong software engineering background, ideally C#/.NET; comfortable reading and modifying a large codebase.\n\nHands-on experience with optimization techniques, constraint programming, mathematical/linear programming, or algorithm development.\n\nComfortable working directly with customers: gathering requirements, explaining trade-offs, and presenting results.\n\nBias toward shipping, with a willingness to develop and iterate quickly under ambiguity.\n\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through ambiguous, real-world constraints.\n\nPreferred / Bonus Experience\nExperience with Angular/TypeScript or other modern frontend frameworks.\n\nBackground in workforce or resource scheduling domains.\n\nExperience with large-scale data modelling.\n\nFamiliarity with enterprise SaaS platforms or vertical-specific optimization products.\n\nTechnology Stack (Representative)\nBackend: .NET 10, C#\n\nFrontend: Angular, TypeScript\n\nOptimization: Constraint programming, mathematical/linear programming, heuristics, algorithm development.\n\nDeployment: On-site and embedded customer environments, cloud-hosted platform\n\nPractices: Git, automated testing, DevOps\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nCustomer scheduling and planning problems modeled accurately and solved within performance targets.\n\nWorking solutions shipped to customers, on tight timelines.\n\nOptimizer performance and quality issues diagnosed and resolved efficiently.\n\nField learnings translated into concrete product and engineering improvements.\n\nStrong, trusted relationships built with customer teams.\n\n We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. 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