Forward Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Travel to customer locations, ranges, exercises, and operational settings to prepare, integrate, test, troubleshoot, and maintain UFORCE systems.

• Oversee technical readiness for significant exercises, red-team activities, and customer contracts, including pre-shipping, arrival, pre-mission, and go/no-go checkpoints.

• Take charge of field incident responses: identify issues, create minimal reproductions, document evidence, coordinate solutions, and drive closure on root causes.

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

• Design and maintain standardized deployment kits, spare packages, images, configurations, scripts, and field playbooks.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to transform field failures and operator feedback into validated improvements in software, autonomy, hardware, network, payload, and processes.

• Sustain customer and internal operating rhythms through status updates, risk assessments, decision logs, after-action reviews (AARs), and action-item closures.

• Assist in training operators, maintainers, and internal teams to enhance the repeatability of deployments over time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a US citizen.

• Must have TS/SCI clearance or be credibly eligible for it.

• Must be willing to deploy to support exercises, red-team events, demonstrations, and customer operations.

• Comfortable working hands-on in challenging environments, such as shipboard, range, remote, or irregular hours.

• Extensive hands-on experience in at least one relevant technical area: systems engineering, network engineering, autonomy, software, electronics, payload integration, or hardware.

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

• Strong instincts for field integration, including configuration baselines, build-to-deploy workflows, imaging, version control, automated checks, and release discipline.

• Practical networking knowledge, covering IP planning, routing/switching, RF/spectrum constraints, basics of secure communications, logging, and telemetry.

• Robust troubleshooting skills involving logs, packet captures, electrical debugging, scripting, automated checks, and disciplined test planning.

• Capable of operating in environments with access control, least privilege, auditability, and a sound security posture.

• Excellent communication skills with customers, operators, engineers, project managers, and executives, particularly under time constraints.

• High sense of ownership, strong judgment, and a preference for evidence-based execution over hero debugging.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement savings plan with company matching contributions.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Supportive work environment with flexible work arrangements.