Global airline operating fleet, cargo, and travel services with 100,000+ staff
United Airlines is migrating from legacy monoliths (PeopleSoft, Solace) toward cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP while adopting generative AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face via RAG). Engineering is the hiring lever: 123 active roles span cloud platforms, real-time systems, and predictive maintenance—a shift away from batch operations toward continuous monitoring of aircraft reliability and passenger workflows.
Notable leadership hires: Technical Lead
United Airlines operates a global network of air travel, cargo, and ground services, serving millions of passengers across multiple continents. The company employs over 100,000 staff. Internally, the technology organization is executing a major modernization: retiring decades-old passenger service systems, deploying predictive maintenance models to reduce aircraft downtime, and building real-time middleware to connect legacy fleet operations with cloud platforms. Active projects include a new passenger service system, predictive analytics for safety data, and multi-factor authentication rollouts.
Oracle, C#, .NET Core, AWS, Azure, GCP, Node.js, Python, Java, React, Jira, Jenkins, and specialized aviation tools like Tridion and Adobe Experience Manager. Recently adopting RAG, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Predictive maintenance for aircraft, a new passenger service system, real-time middleware, cloud migration, predictive analytics for safety, and multi-factor authentication modernization.
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