Maritime Lead Engineer — Uncrewed Systems

UFORCE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE, headquartered in London, seeks a Lead Engineer, Maritime to take hands-on technical ownership of a maritime product and drive it from prototype to repeatable production, delivering reliable systems for customers.

You will work across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and field teams, collaborating with Ukrainian and international experts to solve key technical challenges and enable rapid, testable deployments for Western customers.

Qualifications

• Led engineering delivery for a complete unmanned vessel or major maritime product with clear ownership.
• Strong systems integration judgement across mechanical, electrical, propulsion, control, comms, navigation and software.
• Experience taking maritime product from prototype to repeatable production, incl. DFMA and production testing.
• Proven track record investigating sea-trial or field failures and validating corrective actions.
• Ability to lead engineers across disciplines and drive delivery through influence and authority.
• Understand design decisions affect component availability, qualification, cost and manufacturing quality.
• Understand marine conditions, degraded navigation, communications resilience and operator feedback.
• Judge stability, structural and vessel-safety implications and involve specialists.
• Turn incomplete information into clear priorities, sound technical decisions and progress.
• Communicate product capability, limitations, risks and delivery feasibility honestly.
• Hands-on approach with high ownership and balance speed with engineering discipline.
• Willingness to travel regularly to engineering sites, sea-trial sites and customers.

Responsibilities

• Own the product’s technical baseline across hull to control systems.
• Work with naval architecture to maintain stability and safety evidence.
• Translate customer requirements and field feedback into priorities and delivery plan.
• Lead systems integration across mechanical, electrical, marine-control and software interfaces.
• Collaborate with Ukrainian experts and international teams for Western customers.
• Establish configuration and change control across teams.
• Lead failure investigations and verify fixes through testing.
• Demonstrate performance and reliability with test plans and results.
• Partner with manufacturing on design for manufacture and component qualification.
• Release engineering package for repeatable production.
• Provide readiness assessments for customer trials.
• Coordinate engineers and risk management early.
• Identify opportunities to reuse architecture as product range grows.

Skills

Lead engineering delivery

Systems integration judgement

Prototype to production

Root-cause investigation

Cross-disciplinary leadership

Component qualification

Manufacturing quality

Marine conditions understanding

Prioritisation

Communication clarity

Hands-on ownership

Travel willingness

Job description

UFORCE, headquartered in London, seeks a Lead Engineer, Maritime to take hands-on technical ownership of a maritime product and drive it from prototype to repeatable production, delivering reliable systems for customers.

You will work across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and field teams, collaborating with Ukrainian and international experts to solve key technical challenges and enable rapid, testable deployments for Western customers.