Principal Software Engineer & Connected Platforms, Agentic AI

Who We Are:

Ever wonder who brings the entertainment to your flights? Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, Wi‑Fi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity!

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The Avionics Way captures the essence of what makes our employees special, and by extension, our organization. It’s comprised of 5 core identifiers - Pioneers, Problem Solvers, Accountable, Collaborative, and Customer Focused - that together form a robust, working framework for our continued success. Beyond a philosophy, the Avionics Way is our guide to daily practices. It provides a clear, actionable model to help employees, at all levels, realize their ambitions through outsized contributions to their teams and the company.

This model clearly defines expectations for performance at all levels of the organization, as well as establishes specific actions and modes of working that reinforce our philosophy on the path to achieving our goals.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to define the technical direction for platforms that connect e‑commerce, payments, and data across cloud services and connected hardware. You will solve complex engineering problems spanning digital experiences, distributed transactions, device integration, and environments with intermittent connectivity.

This is a senior individual contributor role with influence across multiple engineering teams. You will combine architectural leadership with hands‑on engineering, turn ambiguous business needs into clear technical strategies, and raise the quality of systems delivered to customers. You will also guide practical applications of agentic AI to improve engineering productivity, operational reliability, and customer experiences.

• Set technical direction. Own the architecture and technical roadmap across commerce, payments, and connected platforms. Align teams around clear system boundaries, interfaces, and engineering standards.
• Build reliable commerce and payment systems. Guide the design of catalog, pricing, checkout, order management, payment orchestration, and reconciliation capabilities, with strong attention to transaction correctness, security, and failure recovery.
• Connect hardware and software. Design cloud‑to‑device workflows that account for constrained compute, intermittent connectivity, software and firmware compatibility, remote configuration, and fleet observability.
• Establish trusted data foundations. Define event models, data contracts, and pipelines that support operational intelligence, analytics, personalization, and traceability across customer and transaction journeys.
• Engineer for real‑world conditions. Address offline operation, synchronization, retries, duplicate events, partial failures, and recovery across cloud and edge environments.
• Make quality an engineering responsibility. Establish measurable reliability and performance targets, automated validation, representative integration testing, and release readiness criteria. Partner with teams to reduce escaped defects and improve detection and recovery.
• Apply agentic AI with measurable value. Identify and deliver focused use cases such as test generation, incident investigation, and operational assistance. Establish evaluations,…