Senior Electromechanical Engineer, Field Testing and Troubleshooting

As the Senior Field Engineer, you will run Edgerun's field engineering work in Kyiv. The work is testing: you will get units on soldiers, run the test, record what happened, get it to engineering, fix what broke, and repeat. You will keep every unit of the world's most advanced powered exoskeleton in Ukraine working, decide what gets tested and when, and be engineering's first call on anything in the field.

You will report to the Ukraine Director but work on your own, and you will lead a field engineer, with more field engineers to be hired under you. You will work closely with the international engineering team, making sure the information from the field is clean, current, and organized for engineering.

This is a hands-on role. You should thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, be comfortable making decisions independently, and bring the energy, attitude, and ownership to build a field engineering operation from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run field tests, scheduling them with brigades and testers and running them alongside a field engineer
• Stay hands-on with testing, diagnostics, repairs, and troubleshooting of electromechanical hardware
• Keep every unit in Ukraine ready before each test and fixed fast when it breaks: charge, flash, diagnose, solder, swap parts, and source parts locally
• Diagnose problems down to the board and explain them clearly to the engineering team, keep the issues feed sharp, and push fixes back out to units in the field
• Maintain strong working relationships with brigades, testers, and military users and follow issues through to resolution
• Decide what gets tested and when, including when to go out in person and when to stay at base, and work with local contacts to run tests quickly
• Keep spares, tools, diagnostic equipment, and the Kyiv field workspace organized and ready
• Keep the unit list, test tracker, and issues feed always current, and get clean test data (video, photos, logs, and notes) into the Field drive the same day
• Lead the field engineer: set clear daily objectives, check the work, and help them get better, as more field engineers are hired under you
• Build simple processes for testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication
• Work closely with the international engineering team to keep information flowing between the field and engineering
• Take ownership of problems and make fast, practical decisions without waiting for detailed direction

Basic Qualifications

• Has run hardware in the field before as the person responsible, with proven ability to build, diagnose, troubleshoot and repair electronic systems and components, ideally gained through practical work with drones, UGVs, robots, radios, EW or similar hardware.
• Experience working with BLDC motors, motor controllers, actuators, lithium battery packs, sensors and wiring harnesses.
• Strong soldering and wiring skills and practical experience reading schematics, using multimeters, oscilloscopes and other diagnostic tools, debugging boards and flashing firmware to identify and resolve faults.
• Experience assembling and disassembling mechanical systems, interpreting CAD drawings and performing basic fabrication or mechanical modifications.
• Ability to identify root causes of hardware failures, implement practical fixes and clearly document findings for the engineering team.
• Demonstrated experience building, modifying, testing and repairing physical hardware, with concrete examples of technical accomplishments.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, making decisions independently and developing processes where none exist.
• Independent: takes an objective and comes back with the result, and does not need to be told twice.
• Organized and precise, and finishes the data before leaving the test.
• Has led one or two people before.
• Willing to grind: full days in the shop and in the field, and weekends when a brigade can only test on a weekend.
• Comfortable with soldiers and command.
• Working English for daily collaboration with international engineers and fluent Ukrainian for communication with local teams and military operators.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Kyiv, able to work on-site and travel to field testing locations when required.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Military service or extensive direct work with military units (a strong plus)
• Firmware familiarity: reading logs, flashing controllers, basic scripting for data capture

How We Work

Hardware reaches real operators within days of concept, not months, and firmware updates ship over the air every one to two weeks. We are a directed team with one owner per category.

Additional Requirements

Location: Kyiv, full time, at the field office and wherever the tests are
Travel: Across the country, including near contested areas
Hours: Full days in the shop and in the field, and weekends when a brigade can only test on a weekend
Start: As soon as possible, with a two-week paid trial