Field Engineer - Edge Tech for Defense Ops

Reveal Technology; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

Parental Leave

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Home Office Stipend

Job summary

Reveal Technology in the United Kingdom seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with military, security, and commercial end users to deploy hardware and software solutions in demanding environments. You will prototype, integrate, and deploy emerging technologies while bridging frontline needs and Reveal’s engineering teams.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in defense or dual-use innovation, strong Python, Go, and C++, and experience with REST/gRPC, ATAK, Palantir, and edge-cloud

Qualifications

• 5+ years in defense or dual-use innovation, ideally forward-deployed or special operations contexts.
• Experience leading R&D projects that fuse autonomy, data engineering, cloud computing, and operational hardware.
• Exceptional self-starter with deep familiarity in Python, Go, C++, and systems-level programming for edge hardware.
• Experience designing, consuming, and integrating RESTful and gRPC APIs, interfacing Reveal products into third‑party platforms via adapters and plugins.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and embed with commercial, military and security end users to identify operational challenges and deliver tailored hardware/software solutions.
• Rapidly prototype low TRL platforms that can mature into Reveal product offerings.
• Act as a frontline engineer and technologist, bringing back validated user feedback and performance data to inform internal roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Reveal engineering teams rear/remotely to transition fielded prototypes into scalable, productized capabilities.
• Serve as a field-facing authority on Reveal’s technologies, including Farsight, and act as a bridge between user need and technical development.
• Lead field integration of Reveal products with adjacent systems (e.g., ATAK, Lattice, Palantir), and articulate the combined operational value.
• Manage technical deployments in austere and high-pressure environments, including edge compute, networking, and UAS.
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership in multi-disciplinary project teams, spanning government and commercial partners.

Skills

Strong communication

Team leadership

Self-starter

Travel readiness

Tools

Python

Go

C++

REST APIs

gRPC

Edge computing

Cloud/edge

Job description

Reveal Technology in the United Kingdom seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with military, security, and commercial end users to deploy hardware and software solutions in demanding environments. You will prototype, integrate, and deploy emerging technologies while bridging frontline needs and Reveal’s engineering teams.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in defense or dual-use innovation, strong Python, Go, and C++, and experience with REST/gRPC, ATAK, Palantir, and edge-cloud