Lead Engineer, Air

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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UFORCE

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501 - 1000 employees

🎖️ Defense

🔧 Hardware

🚀 Aerospace

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Seed Round on 2026-03

Defense • Hardware • Aerospace

UFORCE is a developer and supplier of combat‑proven unmanned systems and integrated command-and-control/autonomy solutions for air, land, and sea operations. Their platforms are presented as battle-tested in Ukraine with thousands of combat missions and validated operational performance; the company emphasizes rapid iteration, sovereign production, and lower-cost deterrence compared with traditional military platforms. Offerings referenced include unmanned air (UAV), land, and sea platforms, C2/autonomy, intercept capabilities, and remote weapon station (RWS) integrations.

📋 Description

• 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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