Field Deployment Engineer – UAS/USV Autonomy

UFORCE; Idaho; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE is a defence-technology company building uncrewed vessels, ground robotics, autonomy software, and mission-control systems. The US Forward Deployed Engineer will deploy forward with customers to ensure field readiness, diagnose issues, and drive improvements across systems, software, hardware, and payload integration.

This hands-on role requires strong collaboration with operators and engineers, the ability to translate field learnings into repeatable kits and playbooks, and a calm,

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in at least one relevant technical specialty: systems engineering, network engineering, autonomy, software, electronics, payload integration, or hardware.
• Experience working with UAS and/or USV systems, or closely related deployed robotics, autonomy, defense, maritime, aerospace, or field‑engineered systems.
• Strong field integration instincts: configuration baselines, build‑to‑deploy workflows, imaging, version control, automated checks, and release discipline.
• Practical networking knowledge, including IP planning, routing/switching, RF/spectrum constraints, secure comms basics, logging, and telemetry.
• Strong troubleshooting toolkit: logs, packet captures, electrical debugging, scripting, automated checks, and disciplined test planning.
• Ability to operate in environments requiring access control, least privilege, auditability, and sound security posture.
• Clear communication with customers, operators, engineers, PMs, and executives — especially under time pressure.
• High ownership, strong judgment, and a bias toward evidence‑based execution over hero debugging.

Responsibilities

• Deploy forward to customer sites, ranges, exercises, and operational environments to prepare, integrate, test, troubleshoot, and sustain UFORCE systems.
• Lead technical readiness for major exercises, red-team events, and customer contracts, including pre-ship, arrival, pre-mission, and go/no‑go gates.
• Own field incident response: diagnose issues, create minimal reproductions, capture evidence, coordinate fixes, and drive root‑cause closure.
• Build deployment evidence packages, including configuration baselines, network diagrams, spectrum/safety approvals, software versions, test results, and logs.
• Create and maintain standardized deployment kits, spares packages, images, configs, scripts, and field playbooks.
• Partner with engineering teams to convert field failures and operator feedback into validated software, autonomy, hardware, network, payload, and process improvements.
• Maintain customer and internal operating cadence through crisp status updates, risk tracking, decision logs, AARs, and action‑item closeout.
• Help train operators, maintainers, and internal teams so deployments become more repeatable over time.

Skills

Systems engineering

Network engineering

Autonomy

Software

Electronics

Payload integration

Hardware

Job description

UFORCE is a defence-technology company building uncrewed vessels, ground robotics, autonomy software, and mission-control systems. The US Forward Deployed Engineer will deploy forward with customers to ensure field readiness, diagnose issues, and drive improvements across systems, software, hardware, and payload integration.

This hands-on role requires strong collaboration with operators and engineers, the ability to translate field learnings into repeatable kits and playbooks, and a calm,