American Airlines
Engineer, IT AI
Fort Worth, Tarrant County · Junior
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About the role
- Intro Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off?
- Join our American Airlines family, and you'll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you.
- As you embark on a new journey, you'll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance existing enterprise services, applications, and platforms using domain driven design and test-driven development
- Troubleshoot and debug complex issues; identify and implement solutions
- Create detailed project specifications, requirements, and estimates
- Research and implement new AI technologies to enhance current processes, security, and performance
- Work closely with software architects and technical leads to ensure decisions meet long-term enterprise growth needs
- Work on pioneering projects that harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve complex problems and create significant business value.
- Responsible for participating in all phases of the development process, following agile processes and test-driven development, and using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects.
- Partner with a diverse team of experts, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build scalable and impactful AI solutions.
- Build and deploy AI agents and workflow automations using low-code platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Automate, as well as the Anthropic Claude ecosystem (Claude Cowork, Claude Code, skills, and plugins), connecting them to enterprise data through connectors and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
- Help create reusable templates, prompts, and guardrails that enable business teams and citizen developers to build AI assistants and automations safely
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
- 3 years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience
- Skills, Licenses and Certifications
- Proficiency in Full Stack Development
- Proficiency and demonstrated experience in the following technologies:
- J2EE technologies: Java, JSP, JMS, JAXB, JDBC, EJB
- Database and persistence frameworks: Hibernate, Oracle, Object/Relational Mapping, Query performance tuning Cloud-based development: Azure Cloud, AWS
Skills
- J2EE
- Java, JSP, JMS, JAXB, JDBC, EJB
- Web Servers: Tomcat, tcServer, Websphere, Web Services: REST/SOAP (JSON/WSDL/XML), Frameworks: Spring Framework, Spring Boot
- Front-end: Angular JS, CSS, jQuery, AJAX
- Build/deployment tools: Maven, Gradel, Git, Junit, Mockito
- Other Dev Ops Toolchain: Nexus Repository, SonarQube, Slack, GitHub, Jenkins, ElasticSearch, Logback, Log4j,, ADO Pipelines, Docker
- Other: Linux/Unix shell Scripting, JavaScript, IBM MQ/Rabbit MQ,, SQL Developer, IDE
- Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles
- Proficiency in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques for generative-based AI models
- Understanding of low-code lifecycle management and governance: environments, solution packaging, DLP policies, and security roles
Benefits
- On day one, you'll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well.
- And that's just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
- Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself - that's why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
- Other great benefits include our Member Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
- Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world?
- Prior experience developing and implementing applications with optimization and/or machine learning models inside
Company info
- Collaborate with leaders, business analysts, project managers, IT architects, technical leads and other developers, along with internal customers, to understand requirements and develop needs according to business requirements for AI solutions
- From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Help create reusable templates, prompts, and guardrails that enable business teams and citizen developers to build AI assistants and automations safely
This listing is sourced directly from American Airlines's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.