Forward Deployed Engineer

UFORCE exists to make aggression unaffordable.

Founded in Ukraine and headquartered in London, UFORCE is a defence-technology company with operations across Europe, the United States and Asia.

UFORCE builds uncrewed vessels, ground robotics and aircraft, autonomy software, and the command-and-control layer that operates them together. Each platform is deployable on its own, and stronger as part of the system. Its product lines include the MAGURA family of uncrewed surface vessels, the NEMESIS family of strike platforms, the LIUT family of ground robotic platforms, and counter-UAS systems.

UFORCE is hiring a US Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy forward with customers and internal teams to make UFORCE systems work reliably in real-world environments. This role is focused on UAS and/or USV systems across exercises, red-team events, demos, and customer operations.

You will own end-to-end field integration, troubleshooting, and customer success across one or more technical disciplines — systems, networking, hardware, autonomy, software, electronics, or payload integration — and turn field learnings into repeatable kits, test plans, playbooks, and engineering improvements.

This is a hands‑on, high‑ownership role for someone who can operate calmly under pressure, translate between operators and engineers, and make mission‑ready capability the standard.

• Deploy forward to customer sites, ranges, exercises, and operational environments to prepare, integrate, test, troubleshoot, and sustain UFORCE systems.

• Lead technical readiness for major exercises, red‑team events, and customer contracts, including pre‑ship, arrival, pre‑mission, and go/no‑go gates.

• Own field incident response: diagnose issues, create minimal reproductions, capture evidence, coordinate fixes, and drive root‑cause closure.

• Build deployment evidence packages, including configuration baselines, network diagrams, spectrum/safety approvals, software versions, test results, and logs.

• Create and maintain standardized deployment kits, spares packages, images, configs, scripts, and field playbooks.

• Partner with engineering teams to convert field failures and operator feedback into validated software, autonomy, hardware, network, payload, and process improvements.

• Maintain customer and internal operating cadence through crisp status updates, risk tracking, decision logs, AARs, and action‑item closeout.

• Help train operators, maintainers, and internal teams so deployments become more repeatable over time.

• Supported major exercises and customer operations with strong technical readiness, high mission availability, and no mission‑stopping technical aborts attributable to integration or setup.

• Reduced recurring field issues and MTTR through disciplined troubleshooting, evidence capture, and root‑cause resolution.

• Established complete, repeatable deployment evidence kits and AAR processes that help the team move faster without sacrificing safety, compliance, or configuration control.

• Built deployment kits and playbooks that reduce setup‑to‑ready time and make sustainment easier in austere environments.

• Delivered field‑driven engineering improvements that are validated on range and reflected in released builds or configurations.

• Deep hands‑on experience in at least one relevant technical specialty: systems engineering, network engineering, autonomy, software, electronics, payload integration, or hardware.

• Experience working with UAS and/or USV systems, or closely related deployed robotics, autonomy, defense, maritime, aerospace, or field‑engineered systems.

• Strong field integration instincts: configuration baselines, build‑to‑deploy workflows, imaging, version control, automated…