Firmware/Embedded Engineer, Flight Control (Founding Engineer)

Munin; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Munin is seeking a Founding Aerospace Controls/Firmware Engineer to own flight control algorithms and firmware for a hand-launched micro-missile. The role is highly hands-on, combining hardware and software development in a high-intensity environment.

You will relocate to Kyiv soon after joining and work with Ukrainian military, with some time in the UK. Expect frontline feedback to drive rapid production scaling while ensuring safety and robust performance.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on firmware experience on physical systems.
• Experience shipping real systems under time pressure.
• High personal drive and tolerance for long, intense work periods.

Responsibilities

• Refine, implement in firmware and test control algorithms in live fire tests.
• Develop detonation and safety logic.
• Guide flight controller development and integrate sensors.
• Guide the design of aerodynamic surfaces.
• Use simulation selectively to accelerate learning, prioritise real-world testing.
• Integrate seeker and flight controls.

Skills

Firmware development

Control algorithms

Live-fire testing

Hardware integration

Tools

CAD

Electronics

Computer vision

Job description

Every month, drones injure and kill thousands of Ukrainians. Munin builds point-defence systems to stop that. Our first product is a hand-launched micro-missile designed to intercept small drones at close range. It is small enough to carry three in a vest and cheap enough for mass deployment. Our goal is to change the battlefield in Ukraine through high-volume production, then deliver proven systems to NATO.

Role summary

We are hiring a Founding Aerospace Controls/Firmware Engineer. You will be responsible for the flight control algorithms and control firmware that gets the missile on target.

You should expect to relocate to Kyiv soon after joining and work mostly from there, with some time in the UK. In Kyiv, you will work directly with the Ukrainian military and scale production using front-line feedback. You will not operate near front-line areas and you will work from Ukraine only while the security situation remains stable.

What you will do

• Refine, implement in firmware and test control algorithms in live fire tests
• Develop detonation and safety logic
• Guide flight controller development and integrate sensors
• Guide the design of aerodynamic surfaces
• Use simulation selectively where it accelerates learning, but prioritise real-world testing
• Integrate seeker and flight controls

Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience building firmware and implementing control algorithms on physical systems
• Experience shipping real systems under time pressure
• High personal drive and tolerance for long, intense work periods

Nice to have

• Startup experience or fast-paced R&D experience
• Experience with CAD, electronics or computer vision
• Serious engineering projects outside work or university
• Military background

Track record

We have contracts with the Norwegian and UK MoDs. In four months, we went from concept to a robust missile prototype that is smaller and cheaper than anything comparable, can be fired with one hand and reliably intercepts FPV drones.

• Working with the Ukrainian armed forces to go from pre-idea to warhead design, production and live-fire testing in 24 hours
• Car-mounted missile testing at 200 km/h
• Building an air cannon in two days, then destructively testing 50 missiles to diagnose a hardware issue
• Six launches in a single day, with design iterations between each launch