Senior AI Engineer (Los Angeles)

Senior Software Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for AI to join us in our mission of bringing the ION Factory OS to next-generation hardware builders around the globe. This role is based in Los Angeles, CA (HQ in El Segundo).

Are you excited by the opportunity to build AI-powered software that accelerates the development of eVTOLs, rockets, robots, and autonomous vehicles? While this role emphasizes AI innovation, we're seeking a senior engineer who can deliver end-to-end product functionalityAI-driven or otherwise. The ideal candidate is just as comfortable shipping core product features as they are designing intelligent AI systems.

As a senior engineer, you'll collaborate with AI / ML specialists, product managers, and customers to bring cutting-edge research into real-world applications while ensuring that our broader platform continues to scale. If you want to play a key role in shaping the future of hardware and Industry 4.0 through both AI innovation and strong software engineering, we'd love to meet you.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of production-ready AI systems within the ION Factory OS.
• Ship customer-facing features that directly impact manufacturing workflows, including AI-driven functionality (e.g., generative procedure creation, anomaly detection, recommendations) and core product features not reliant on AI.
• Architect and maintain scalable software systems, including AI / ML pipelines and broader product infrastructure.
• Design and implement AI features using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to deliver context-aware insights and recommendations.
• Leverage Model Context Protocol (MCP) and similar frameworks to connect AI models seamlessly with structured / unstructured data sources and external tools.
• Collaborate with product managers and customers to translate real-world challenges into robust software solutions.
• Partner with data engineering to process and transform structured and unstructured manufacturing data into usable formats.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of all systems in production, leveraging CI / CD and cloud-native workflows.
• Stay ahead of advancements in software engineering and AI, bringing the best practices into shipped product features.
• Mentor junior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team.

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

Desired Qualifications

Benefits & Perks

First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes space exploration, electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery.