[Hiring] Founding Software Engineer @AIT Worldwide Logistics

Role Description

Join us at AIT, where we believe every day presents an opportunity to make a global impact! We’re problem solvers, driven by our curiosity and creativity, in endless pursuit of solutions for our customers. Together, we champion the strength of our global teams. And, as trusted advisors, we go above and beyond, working together in a supportive and collaborative environment to ensure customer satisfaction.

The Founding Software Engineer, Skunkworks is an individual-contributor engineer on AIT's new Skunkworks team, responsible for building key elements of what a company of this size will run on. This is a hands-on role that designs, builds, and ships production systems solving real operational problems.

• Build AIT's next-generation technology from the ground up, contributing to the selection of architecture, stack, and tooling.
• Partner with operations stakeholders to translate appropriate operational pain points into shipped software.
• Make and document the foundational technical decisions expected of a founding engineer on the Skunkworks team.
• Design, build, and operate capabilities using agents, RAG, and LLM pipelines.
• Apply AI-assisted development as a daily force multiplier across the engineering workflow.
• Evaluate emerging AI models, frameworks, and tooling and adopt what measurably improves delivery.
• Ship to production and own systems end-to-end in production.
• Ensure the reliability, quality, and operational performance of the systems this role builds.
• Establish the engineering practices, standards, and quality bar across the work this role builds.
• Demo work directly to company leadership as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience with a demonstrated track record of success.
• Master’s degree in computer science or a related field is preferred.
• Proven experience delivering software solutions end-to-end, with accountability for deployment, reliability, and ongoing production support.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage modern AI tools and AI-assisted development techniques as a core part of the software development lifecycle.
• Strong track record of building, shipping, and operating scalable, production-grade systems.
• Deep expertise in end-to-end software and AI engineering, including system design, development, testing, deployment, and production ownership.
• Advanced proficiency with modern AI tooling and AI-native development practices.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing Large Language Model (LLM) applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures, and AI agent-based systems.
• Strong understanding of scalable software architectures, automation, and best practices for building resilient and intelligent applications.

Values

• Demonstrate teamwork and collaboration across functions.
• Maintain ownership, accountability, and professionalism in all activities.
• Continuously seek improvements and drive operational excellence.
• Maintain a strong customer-centric mindset.
• Conduct business ethically and in accordance with AIT values.
• Deliver high performance and contribute positively to organizational growth.