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Lead Engineer owning UFORCE’s first Western-facing uncrewed aircraft product. Integrating, testing and industrialising reliable air systems for defence customers.
Responsibilities:
- Take hands-on technical ownership of UFORCE’s first Western-facing air product
- Assess the current design, customer requirements and test evidence, identify risks, and create a 90-day delivery plan
- Establish requirements, configuration records, bills of materials, interface definitions and change control
- Lead systems integration across airframe, propulsion, power, avionics, flight control, communications, navigation, payload interfaces and ground systems
- Establish failure reporting and corrective action, address priority failure modes, and verify improvements through ground and flight testing
- Prepare the product for repeatable production through design for manufacture, component qualification, approved substitutions and supplier-risk management
- Release production documentation including drawings, BOM, assembly requirements, inspection and acceptance tests, and cost-reduction priorities
- Define approved configurations, test plans and readiness criteria for customer trials and delivery
- Work with Ukrainian product experts and international teams to translate operator and customer feedback into product changes
- Identify reusable architecture, components and engineering practices, and recommend capability and resource needs
Requirements:
- Experience leading delivery of a complete air vehicle or substantial integrated UAS product, with evidence of personal technical decisions and impact on flight performance
- Ability to reason across mechanical, electrical, flight-control, communications, navigation and software interfaces
- Meaningful involvement taking an aerial product into repeatable production, including design for manufacture, configuration control and production testing
- Track record diagnosing flight or field failures, identifying root causes and proving corrective actions through repeatable testing
- Ability to set priorities, coordinate engineers and specialist partners, and drive delivery through influence and formal authority
- Practical understanding of how design decisions affect availability, qualification, unit cost, manufacturing quality and sourcing requirements
- Understanding of GNSS denial, jamming, communications resilience and operator feedback in UAS design and testing
- Comfort working close to hardware, making decisions with incomplete information and balancing delivery speed with engineering control
- Ability to distinguish demonstrated capability from development goals, explain limitations and escalate technical, safety or resource risks early
- Willingness to travel regularly to engineering teams, manufacturing sites, test ranges and customers
- Nice to have: experience with Ukrainian UAS teams, Western defence customers, NDAA, Blue UAS, export controls, customer trials, military qualification, airworthiness, payload integration, cross-country engineering/manufacturing coordination, or broader technical leadership
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