Lead Product Engineer, Full Stack / Applied AI

Advanced Aircrew Academy helps flight departments elevate safety, exceed standards, and stay mission-ready. Through modern training, we empower tens of thousands of aviation professionals to operate with compliance, simplicity, and scalability.

The Role:

• Operators must keep crews trained, qualified and ready to fly, but that still means assembling training by hand and reconciling records across disconnected tools. We build software that removes that work, and AI that turns an operator’s own materials into courseware that teaches better, not just faster.
• You own day-to-day product management and engineering delivery: discover problems, shape and prioritize the roadmap, design solutions, then personally build, launch and improve them.
• This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for an engineer who wants to decide what should be built and then build it.

Who You Work With:

• Co-CEO (Operations): Your partner on product and design.
• Director of Courseware: Your main aviation partner, with other specialists, from discovery through validation.
• Customer Success, Chief of Staff and Commercial: They bring customer and operational input; you turn it into product decisions without waiting for complete specifications.

What You Step Into:

• Working software in production for course creation and delivery, training records and reporting, which customers rely on for compliance and audits.
• React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL and AWS.

What You Will Own:

• Customer discovery and product design start on day one.
• Reliability and data integrity: Own software reliability and integrity.
• Better courseware, faster: Improve the AI system that turns customer materials and requirements into courseware.
• Readiness workflows: Build workflows that connect training to qualifications, records and readiness.

How You Work:

• High agency: You clarify goals, dig in, recommend, move work forward and flag blockers early.
• Good judgement: You weigh value, time, cost and reliability.
• Root-cause problem-solving: You reason from first principles and fix causes, not symptoms.
• Player/coach leadership: You build and ship while reviewing, coaching and documenting.
• Effective communication: You write clearly, explain tradeoffs to nontechnical colleagues.

What You Will Bring:

• Product ownership: You have taken a B2B product or substantial feature from an unclear need into production.
• Full-stack engineering: 6+ years of professional software engineering.
• AI-native development: AI is central to how you build.
• Production operation: You have run cloud applications, handled incidents and made safe database changes.

Our Purpose and Values:

• Purpose: To be the world’s most trusted aviation training partner.
• Values: Mission-Driven Focus, People Serving People, Change Champions, Decide. Do. Deliver, One Aircrew.

What We Offer:

• Meaningful Impact: Contribute to a culture aimed at strengthening aviation safety.
• Ownership and Growth: Build and lead an AI engineering function.
• Strategic Influence: Help shape how we position the company.
• Remote Flexibility: Work remotely, with regular in-person collaboration.
• Compensation and Benefits: Competitive salary based on experience, plus annual bonus.