Forward Deployed Engineer — Field-Ready UAS/USV Systems

UFORCE; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE, a combat-systems integrator, is hiring a US Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy forward with customers and internal teams to make UFORCE systems work reliably in real-world environments. This role is focused on UAS and/or USV systems across exercises, red-team events, demos, and customer operations.

You will own end-to-end field integration, troubleshooting, and customer success across one or more technical disciplines — systems, networking, hardware, autonomy, software, electronics, or

Qualifications

• US citizen.
• TS/SCI cleared or credibly eligible.
• Willing to deploy forward for exercises, red‑team events, demos, and customer operations.
• Comfortable working hands‑on in austere environments such as shipboard, range, remote, or irregular‑hours settings.
• Nice-to-have: prior FDE/field engineering or deployment experience supporting defense programs, exercises, SOCOM, Navy, Army, or similar users.
• Nice-to-have: experience with autonomy tuning, GNSS‑denied environments, EW/spectrum coordination, safety‑of‑flight, or safety approvals.

Responsibilities

• Deploy forward to customer sites 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.

Job description

UFORCE, a combat-systems integrator, is hiring a US Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy forward with customers and internal teams to make UFORCE systems work reliably in real-world environments. This role is focused on UAS and/or USV systems across exercises, red-team events, demos, and customer operations.

You will own end-to-end field integration, troubleshooting, and customer success across one or more technical disciplines — systems, networking, hardware, autonomy, software, electronics, or