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You will lead a small engineering team, establish the system architecture and technical baseline, guide AI and software development, and make technical decisions related to system performance, integration, and safety. You will also perform hands-on engineering work as needed.\nDuties:\nLead the system architecture and technical baseline for the AI, software, compute, and simulation-integration components. \nGuide selection, development, integration, and deployment of speech, language-model, and supporting software capabilities for on-premise operation. \nLead development of AI safety and validation controls that prevent unsafe or invalid outputs from affecting the simulator. \nPerform hands-on engineering work in areas such as speech and command processing, model adaptation, and system performance. \nLead technical reviews, troubleshooting, and readiness decisions; explain technical decisions and tradeoffs to the customer. \nMentor engineers and coordinate technical work across AI/ML, software, systems, cybersecurity, and aviation subject matter experts. \nQualifications\nRequired Skills/Experience:\nPreferred experience range: 10-12 years building software or AI-enabled systems, including technical leadership of teams delivering speech or language-model applications. Demonstrated technical and leadership ability will be considered regardless of total years of experience. \nHands-on experience designing and delivering on-premise AI/ML systems, including language-model serving, retrieval-augmented generation, and real-time speech or language pipelines. \nHands-on experience fine-tuning speech or language models and evaluating their performance using defined measures and held-out data. \nExperience delivering software or AI systems in a DoD or similarly controlled environment, including secure development, vulnerability management, and software supply-chain requirements. \nAbility to lead technical reviews, explain complex engineering decisions to customers, and make technical decisions under schedule pressure. \nAbility to travel for technical reviews, integration testing, and demonstrations \nMust be a U.S. Citizen\nEducation Requirements:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field preferred. Equivalent relevant professional or military experience may substitute for a degree. \nDesired Skills:\nExperience with HLA or DIS and flight-simulator or training-device integration. \nExperience with schema-constrained generation, ontologies, or other methods for validating AI-generated outputs. \nExperience with preference optimization or other methods for improving models using human feedback. \nExperience with AI/ML security, adversarial testing, or OpenTelemetry-based system observability. \nPrior experience developing AI instructors, training assistants, or similar AI applications. \nOverview\nPeople First. Technology Always.\nPeopleTec, Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville, AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.\nCulture: The name \"PeopleTec\" was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our company's foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere, we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.\nCareer: At PeopleTec, we value your long-term goals. Whether it's through our continuing-education opportunities, our robust training programs, or our \"People First\" benefits package, PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.\nCome Experience It. \n#cjpost #dpost\nEEO Statement\nPeopleTec, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, you may use the following email address,  and/or phone number (256.319.3800) to contact us about your interest in employment with PeopleTec, Inc.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. 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