Vehicle Assembly & Service Technician – Tech Lead

🔥 12 hours ago

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Saildrone

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201 - 500 employees

🎖️ Defense

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $50M Corporate Round - Saildrone on 2025-10

Defense • Hardware • Artificial Intelligence

Saildrone is a maritime autonomous systems company that designs, manufactures and operates unmanned surface vehicles (ocean drones) built to endure the world’s harshest seas. Its platforms combine advanced sensor suites, AI, and renewable power to deliver persistent, wide-area ocean mapping, bathymetry, hydrography, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data and services for defense, maritime security, offshore energy, and scientific customers. Saildrone emphasizes long-endurance, low-risk operations to provide real-time threat detection, tracking, and actionable data to decision-makers and warfighters.

📋 Description

• Lead Fleet Services operations across the assigned program or site, overseeing service execution from recovery through redeployment • Plan fleet maintenance and resources with Fleet Management, maintaining long-term service calendars and coordinating recovery schedules, staffing, and equipment needs • Develop and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and standardize effective field practices across the organization • Supervise and develop technicians through technical guidance, training, mentorship, and quality oversight • Manage contractors and vendors, ensuring third-party work meets technical and safety requirements • Provide remote technical leadership to field teams, troubleshooting complex system failures and guiding resolution • Manage equipment, procurement, and inventory, authorizing mission-essential purchases within budget controls and maintaining accurate records • Audit service records, work orders, and daily reports for completeness and accuracy, and ensure timely reporting of safety and quality incidents

🎯 Requirements

• 10–15+ years of experience in technical integration, field engineering, service execution, or project management involving complex deployed systems • Extensive experience leading technical field operations, managing service activities, and holding teams accountable for performance and safety • Deep technical proficiency across Saildrone’s Explorer, Voyager, and Surveyor platforms, including the ability to diagnose and troubleshoot system failures remotely • Expert-level proficiency in developing technical SOPs and managing work orders in Fleetio • Demonstrated experience managing equipment procurement, large-scale inventories, and international inventory controls • Strong operational judgment, with the ability to balance execution speed, technical quality, budget constraints, and site safety • Proven ability to identify systemic improvements from field data and operational experience, and to mentor and develop technicians across multiple experience levels • Willingness to travel 50–75% and provide remote on-call support as required • U.S. Person status and eligibility to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance • Ability to travel to remote and austere environments to conduct site audits and lead complex deployments • Capable of performing or overseeing physical operations in extreme weather and confined spaces

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual • Robust annual holiday schedule • Paid sick leave • Premium, multi-tier Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with significant company contributions for employees and dependents • Equity grants • 401(k) retirement plan with flexible pre-tax and Roth payroll contribution options • Annual professional development reimbursement program • Relocation assistance for eligible roles

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