Forward Deployed Engineer, US

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 checks, and release discipline.

Practical networking knowledge, including IP planning, routing/switching, RF/spectrum constraints, secure comms basics, logging, and telemetry.

Strong troubleshooting toolkit: logs, packet captures, electrical debugging, scripting, automated checks, and disciplined test planning.

Ability to operate in environments requiring access control, least privilege, auditability, and sound security posture.

Clear communication with customers, operators, engineers, PMs, and executives — especially under time pressure.

High ownership, strong judgment, and a bias toward evidence-based execution over hero debugging.

US citizen.

TS/SCI cleared or credibly eligible.

Willing to deploy forward for exercises, red-team events, demos, and customer operations.

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

Prior FDE, FSR, field engineering, or deployment experience supporting defense programs, exercises, SOCOM, Navy, Army, or similar users.

Experience with autonomy tuning, GNSS-denied environments, EW/spectrum coordination, safety-of-flight, or safety approvals.

Experience building evidence or compliance kits, including configuration management, test artifacts, and ATO-style workflows.

Instructor mindset and experience training customers, operators, maintainers, or internal teams.

We optimize for mission readiness, evidence-based execution, tempo with safety, and customer trust. The right person for this role is a systems thinker and hands-on doer who can move from symptoms to hypotheses to tests to fixes — while keeping operators, customers, and engineering teams aligned.

The nature of combat has changed.

Tomorrow’s battlefield success depends on autonomy, speed, and adaptability.

And UFORCE is ready.

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