Forward-Deployed Engineer: UAS/USV Field Operations

UForce; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE is seeking a US Forward Deployed Engineer to join our London-based team and deploy systems with customers in real-world environments. You will own end-to-end field integration, troubleshooting, and customer success across multiple technical disciplines.

You will operate hands-on at customer sites, support exercises and operations, translate operator feedback into improvements, and help build repeatable deployment kits and playbooks for faster, safer deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience with UAS/USV or closely related deployed robotics.
• Strong field integration instincts and version control practices.
• Practical networking knowledge: IP planning, routing, RF constraints.
• Excellent communication under time pressure.
• High ownership and evidence-based execution.

Responsibilities

• Deploy to customer sites and test, troubleshoot, and sustain UFORCE systems.
• Lead technical readiness for exercises, red-team events, and contracts including gates.
• Own field incident response: diagnose issues, reproduce, capture evidence, drive RCA.
• Build deployment evidence packages: config baselines, diagrams, approvals, tests, logs.
• Create and maintain standardized deployment kits, spares, images, configs, scripts, playbooks.
• Partner with engineering to convert field failures into validated improvements across software, autonomy, hardware, and network.
• Maintain customer/internal cadence with status updates, risk logs, and action-item closeout.
• Train operators, maintainers, and internal teams to improve repeatability.

Skills

Systems engineering

Network engineering

Autonomy

Software

Electronics

Payload integration

Hardware

Job description

UFORCE is seeking a US Forward Deployed Engineer to join our London-based team and deploy systems with customers in real-world environments. You will own end-to-end field integration, troubleshooting, and customer success across multiple technical disciplines.

You will operate hands-on at customer sites, support exercises and operations, translate operator feedback into improvements, and help build repeatable deployment kits and playbooks for faster, safer deployments.