UFORCE exists to make aggression unaffordable.

Founded in Ukraine and headquartered in London, UFORCE is a defence-technology company with operations across Europe, the United States and Asia.

UFORCE builds uncrewed vessels, ground robotics and aircraft, autonomy software, and the command-and-control layer that operates them together. Each platform is deployable on its own, and stronger as part of the system. Its product lines include the MAGURA family of uncrewed surface vessels, the NEMESIS family of strike platforms, the LIUT family of ground robotic platforms, and counter-UAS systems.

About the role

UFORCE is looking for a Chief Engineer to take end-to-end technical ownership of a priority product family, platform, or cross-product mission system spanning air, land, maritime, payloads, and enabling technologies.

Our systems have been shaped by extensive real-world operational use. The next challenge is to turn that advantage into globally deployable products that continuously improve, move rapidly from operator need to fielded capability, and can be produced reliably at scale.

You will be the accountable technical leader for the complete system: translating mission needs into requirements, leading architecture and design decisions across disciplines, driving performance improvements, and ensuring that products are integrated, testable, manufacturable, reliable, and ready for operational use. You will work closely with UFORCE's technical founder, Hardware and Software leadership, Product, Manufacturing, Delivery, and engineering teams across Ukraine and Global markets.

This is not a role for someone who wants to manage engineering from a distance. You will remain close to the technology, the people building it, and the operators using it - leading design reviews, supporting tests and deployments, resolving difficult system-level problems, and creating the technical clarity that allows strong engineers to move quickly.

The role is ideally based in the United Kingdom and will require regular travel to UFORCE engineering, manufacturing, test, and deployment locations.

What you'll do

Take end-to-end technical ownership of an assigned UFORCE product family, platform, or integrated mission system.

Translate operator needs, customer requirements, field evidence, and strategic priorities into clear system requirements, architecture, interfaces, and acceptance criteria.

Lead technical trade-offs across mechanical, electrical, electronics, controls, embedded software, autonomy, communications, payloads, power, manufacturing, and operational constraints.

Identify and deliver material improvements to mission performance, including areas such as range, endurance, payload, accuracy, survivability, speed, reliability, and operator effectiveness.

Accelerate the path from mission need to tested and fielded capability through rapid, evidence-led build-test-learn cycles.

Establish and maintain a coherent technical baseline across requirements, system architecture, interfaces, configurations, and regional product variants.

Ensure designs are manufacturable, testable, maintainable, supportable, and capable of being produced repeatedly at the required rate and quality.

Use test, deployment, exercise, operator, and combat evidence to diagnose failures, establish root causes, and drive verified corrective action.

Lead high-quality requirements, architecture, design, integration, test-readiness, and release-readiness reviews without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.

Build and develop a lean, high-performing cross-disciplinary engineering team with clear ownership, strong technical standards, and a low-ego approach to problem-solving.

Partner closely with Software Engineering and Pavel's organization to ensure hardware, software, controls, compute, and autonomy operate as one integrated system.

Personally intervene when a priority technical issue or programme is blocked and remain accountable until the system-level problem is resolved.

What we're looking for

Significant experience as a Chief Engineer, Chief Systems Engineer, Technical Director, Head of Engineering, Chief Designer, Engineering Director, or equivalent senior technical authority for a complex physical system.