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As a Lead Embedded Software Engineer you are a key part of our Architecture team to develop and implement the core features and functionalities to have our drones operate safely and autonomously in the air.
 

Together with our world-class team, currently seven team members, you will take an empowering role: pushing the boundaries of drone technologies. You will be working closely with stakeholders in Germany and US from the System architecture and Hardware development departments.
 

This is a full-time office job. Candidates must be located in Kyiv.
 

What is your Day to Day Mission:

• Lead a team of embedded engineers
• Implementation, maintenance, and optimization of the Quantum-Systems autopilot firmware and firmware stack
• Design, Conception, implementation, and testing of new autopilot functionalities
• Export of flight control and navigation algorithms from Matlab / Simulink and integration into the autopilot’s embedded framework
• Implementation, maintenance, and optimization of BSP / peripheral and external sensor drivers and their optimized operation in the scope of the real-time operating system
• Building, documenting, and maintaining autopilot firmware for flight tests. Creation of flight test tickets, support of flight tests, and post-flight data analysis
• Creating unit tests, debugging/tracing of the code base for code coverage/functionality testing
• Maintenance of the firmware update eco system, including bootloaders & firmware updates
• Support in the implementation and maintenance of production tools

What you bring to the team:

• You have completed a degree in the field of bachelor’s or master’s degree in software engineering / electrical engineering and you have several years of experience working with embedded systems.
• You have a deep understanding of embedded systems and you are a senior in designing, implementing and optimizing embedded systems.
• You have strong knowledge of microcontrollers (ARM, Cortex-M), real-time operating systems and hardware and communication interfaces interfaces (UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, ETH ...)
• You are experienced with real-time operating systems like FreeRTOS or uCOS II and knowledge of multi-threading, task scheduling, and inter-task communication.
• You have the ability to bridge the gap between hardware and software, understanding the electrical and physical constraints, profound understanding of electronic schematics and efficiently utilizing available hardware resources
• You master version control and collaboration tools such as git and gitlab and you have experience in working in collaborative development environments with agile methodologies.
• You are highly self-motivated and drive your area of responsibility independently
• Due to your open, communicative, friendly, and competent attitude, it is easy for you to be considered as an internal expert

• English level at least B2

   

Why Quantum-Systems:

• We Stand with Ukraine!
• We believe in the power of combined efforts: straightforward tech expertise paired with a customer-centric focus.
• We are industry pioneers who are ambitious, bold, and visionary.
• We push limits, think outside the box, and strive for technological excellence to shape the future of aerial data.
• We promise to be your runway for individual and professional growth.

DARC helps European, US and allied defence companies enter the Ukrainian market: strategy, partner matching, battlefield testing, communications.
 

The role

You are the technical authority on our side of the table.

You join pre-sale calls with the founders. A manufacturer explains what they build, and you work out during the conversation whether it meets a real Ukrainian requirement, what is missing, and what the honest answer is.
 

Once a client signs, you own the technical half of their go-to-market. You validate the product against how the war is actually fought, you produce feedback their engineers can act on, and you define what has to change and in what order.
 

You run the technical conversations between the client's engineers and their Ukrainian counterparty. Both sides describe the same problem in different languages, and someone has to carry the meaning across without losing it.
 

This is not an engineering role. You will not design or build anything. You assess, you translate, and you coordinate.

What we are looking for

• A working understanding of how this war is fought
• Expertise in unmanned systems across domains. FPV, fixed wing, fibre-optic, ground, naval. What they are built from, what fails first, and what is replacing what
• One area of real technical depth. Electronics and RF, EW, propulsion, optics and sensors, autonomy and software, materials, energetics. We need one properly, plus the literacy to follow a conversation in the others
• Experience sitting in front of an external customer and giving them a technical answer they did not want to hear
• Fluent English. You will speak and write to CTOs and heads of engineering every day
• Native Ukrainian
• Ability to explain a complex system in writing, without jargon, to a commercial reader
   

Strong plus:

• Background in a Ukrainian manufacturer's R&D or integration team
• Military engineering, acceptance testing, codification, or admission of product for supply
• Pre-sale, solutions or field application engineering at a component or systems vendor
  
   

What you will do

• Join pre-sale calls as the technical voice alongside the founders
• Assess a client's product against the Ukrainian requirement and write the honest answer, including when the answer is no
• Define what has to change for the product to work here, and in what sequence
• Structure and run technical negotiations between client engineers and Ukrainian partners
• Build the technical sections of proposals 
• Support integration and trials, and turn partner feedback into something a client's engineering team can act on
• Keep our own technical picture current. What is being used, what is failing, what is being replaced
   

What we offer

• Direct work with foreign manufacturers and tier-one players in Ukraine and abroad
• Visibility across dozens of foreign products and Ukrainian requirements at the same time, which is a view almost nobody has
• Travel to European defence exhibitions
• Competitive salary with a performance component tied to delivery on signed mandates
• Salary review every quarter

Are you passionate about safeguarding countries, societies, and businesses from hybrid threats?

Look no further! Our rapidly scaling company is committed to this crucial mission, collaborating with some of the world’s most influential organizations, including NATO and the EU.

If you’re ready to join a high-impact team shaping the future of intelligence and security, we invite you to become part of our journey. Join us and help defend the digital world with purpose and innovation!

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to work on the data architecture behind our intelligence platform, across both our production data infrastructure and our work with multimodal data.

We operate on text, social media, geospatial, and time-series data at scale. A large part of the engineering challenge is in how that data is represented and connected: the same real-world entity can be modelled on a map, as a node in a graph, and as a pattern over time, and the value comes from being able to query and reason across those views together.

You'll bring hands-on experience with geospatial data, knowledge graphs, or entity-relationship systems across multiple data types. We care more about how you reason through architectural and technology choices than about any specific tool.

This is a hands-on, senior role with real ownership over architecture, execution, and technical direction.
 

Key Responsibilities

Multimodal Data & Entity Modelling

• Extract entities and relationships from text, social media, geospatial, and time-series data, and model them across map, graph, and temporal representations.
• Evolve our knowledge graph layer and make connected data usable for analytics, visualisation, and AI agents.
• Evaluate and prototype technologies for geospatial and graph workloads at scale

Core Data Platform

• Migrate production workloads from PostgreSQL to StarRocks.
• Improve ingestion and processing performance, and redesign product storage architecture for billion-row scale.
• Own the infrastructure your pipelines run on, including deployment, performance, and cost.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building data systems for geospatial data, graph data, or knowledge graphs, ideally combining several data types.
• Experience with GIS tooling (e.g. PostGIS), graph databases (e.g. Neo4j, TigerGraph), or modelling graph data on relational or columnar storage.
• Strong architectural thinking and the ability to justify technology choices, run experiments, and change course based on results.
• Proven experience moving and processing data at large scale, with resumable, idempotent, and memory-safe pipelines.
• Experience working with data infrastructure beneath the managed layer, not only inside a ready-made SaaS platform.
• Ability to read query plans and change physical data layout to fix performance issues.
• Experience building and shipping production backend services in Python.
• Comfort owning infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Fluent English.

Nice to Have

• Production experience with a columnar or MPP engine such as StarRocks, Doris, ClickHouse, BigQuery, or Snowflake, including partitioning, distribution, and indexing.
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch at scale, including mappings, ILM, tiering, and reindexing.
• Experience with a long-running migration involving dual-write, reconciliation, and cutover.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL internals.
• Experience with event-driven ingestion using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), lakehouse formats (Parquet, Iceberg), and orchestrators such as Airflow.
• Background in threat intelligence, OSINT, geospatial intelligence, or defence.

We Offer

• Opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven startup and support prestigious clients, including governments worldwide, enterprise clients, and leading NGOs in tackling global security challenges.
• Autonomy and freedom to drive experiments and bring your own ideas to life.
• Flexibility of remote work, with the option to join our teams in Kyiv and Lviv.
• Flexible, unlimited time-off policy.

Are you eager to bring state-of-the-art machine learning models to both edge devices and the cloud? Do you excel in fast-paced environments, constantly pushing the limits of what’s possible? Are you someone who always strives to see the bigger picture and go the extra mile?

If so, we have a compelling opportunity for a Technical Lead to join our team. In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of developing and integrating various modules, components, and models across a range of edge platforms. Your assistance will include designing and implementing robust data processing pipelines that ensure recurrently improving performance on edge systems.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in C/C++, preferably with a solid background in embedded systems programming (at least 5 years).
• Additional Python experience is welcome.
• Experience in developing and deploying software solutions on edge devices.
• Expertise in designing and implementing robust data pipelines capable of seamlessly integrating with edge devices.
• Proficiency with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman) and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift) for deploying and managing ML inference workloads at the edge and in the cloud.
• Knowledge of CI/CD workflows and automation tools.

Would be an advantage:

• Hands-on experience with sensor data acquisition, preprocessing, and integration on edge devices, utilizing communication protocols such as SPI, UART, I2C, and others.Tech Lead (C/C++) 1
• Solid understanding of edge computing constraints, including resource limitations, power efficiency, latency considerations, and offline operation strategies.
• Experience working with embedded operating systems, such as Linux-based platforms (e.g., Raspbian, Ubuntu Server) and real-time OSes (e.g., FreeRTOS, NuttX), ensuring effective integration with edge ML inference systems.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience of working with a team of developers, setting technical direction, and mentoring engineers in best practices for C++ and embedded systems development.Experience working with cross-compilation toolchains and build systems like CMake, Bazel, or Meson for embedded and edge platforms.
• Strong knowledge of real-time systems and constraints, with expertise in concurrency control, scheduling, and real-time operating systems.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing strategies for C+±driven development workflows.
• Experience with UAVs, drones, or flight controllers, including their integration with embedded AI systems for real-time inference and onboard data processing.

We are open to communicating with Candidates who can contribute to our cause on a part-time basis as Consultants. This role offers a clear path toward a CTO position for a candidate who demonstrates both technical excellence and strategic leadership.

Company Benefits are discussed with Candidates specifically.

An international defense-tech company that designs and manufactures unmanned systems is looking for a Senior Embedded Engineer to join its Ukrainian office and lead the development of a technical direction. The role involves more than software development: it gives you direct influence on technical decisions, from flight controller firmware to partner integrations. The Senior Embedded Engineer will be responsible for developing the product's technical capabilities and for defining the architecture and priorities of the direction.

Responsibilities

• Develop new technical capabilities for the product across three areas:
  • Airside: firmware development for flight controller microcontrollers and supporting electronics, including flight control and radio link code
  • Groundside: ground station software development; receiving, processing, and displaying the video stream from the UAV
  • Autonomy: development of navigation, GNSS, orientation, and positioning solutions
• Diagnose and resolve issues at the intersection of hardware and firmware
• Contribute to technical requirements, including feasibility assessment, reviews, and solution architecture
• Create test cases, review test plans, and execute testing
• Prototype solutions and bring them to a stable, production-ready state
• Define technical decisions and priorities within your area

Requirements

• 3+ years of commercial experience in embedded development in MilTech or related fields: robotics, aerospace, automotive, or industrial electronics
• Knowledge of the UAV ecosystem: Betaflight, ExpressLRS, PX4, ArduPilot, OpenTX
• Strong knowledge of C/C++ for embedded systems and experience developing in bare-metal or RTOS environments
• Experience with STM32 microcontrollers and I2C, SPI, UART, and Ethernet protocols
• Experience in system design of embedded and distributed systems and in hardware/software integration
• Experience with computer vision or video processing projects
• English at B2 (Upper-Intermediate) level or higher

We offer

• Office-based work in Kyiv
• Flexible working hours
• Military service deferment (reservation) for employees subject to mobilization
• Medical insurance
• An international team of experienced engineers

We are looking for a Python Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems to join our autonomous systems control team.

This role is a strong fit for an engineer who is comfortable with mathematics, and is interested in growing into control engineering for autonomous systems.

We consider engineers at Middle+ level.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain control and decision-making algorithms for autonomous guidance
• Perform testing in simulation environment and in real life
• Analyze system behavior and logs
• Navigate through research papers and algorithm descriptions in field of autonomous systems and apply them in practice

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of software development experience in ML, robotics, simulation, gamedev or other algorithmically intensive domains
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++
• Hands on experience with concurrent and parallel programming
• Mathematical background, including: linear algebra (vectors and matrices, coordinat systems and transformations) calculus (derivatives and integrals)

Would be an advantage:

• Control theory fundamentals
• Olympiad programming
• Signal processing
• Machine Learning
• Mavlink
• Simulation tools (Gazebo, AirSim)
• ITL, HITL testing
• X4, Betaflight, ArduPilot

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge embedded products
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible working model (remote / hybrid / onsite)
• Professional growth and learning opportunities
• Collaborative and engineering-focused culture

We are looking for a Chief BD Manager (miltech) for our client — a leading international company developing defense technology solutions in Ukraine.

The company is scaling production of interceptor drones and UAVs for the defense forces and is now building its commercial function in Ukraine from the ground up.

This is a role for an experienced business development professional ready to own the full cycle of work with military tenders and state procurement — from opportunity identification to contract signing.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Leading business development with the Ministry of Defense, military units, and defense procurement bodies.
• Managing the full cycle of military tenders and state procurement — from opportunity identification to contract award.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key decision-makers across the Armed Forces, Brave1, and related defense-tech institutions.
• Developing and executing a go-to-market strategy for the company’s interceptor and UAV product lines.
• Negotiating and closing contracts with military and governmental counterparties in compliance with Ukrainian procurement law.
• Representing the company at industry events, briefings, and negotiations with military and government stakeholders.
• Analyzing the market: procurement pathways, competitor activity, evolving needs of the defense sector.
• Working closely with engineering and production teams to align commercial commitments with delivery capacity.

Qualification criteria:

• Proven experience with military tenders and defense procurement processes in Ukraine.
• 2+ years of experience in business development within the military/defense sector.
• Strong understanding of the Ukrainian defense ecosystem, including the Ministry of Defense, Brave1, and procurement/codification procedures.
• Demonstrated track record of building relationships with military and governmental decision-makers.
• Strong negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Basic English proficiency.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience in a UAV, drone, or broader defense-tech company.
• Existing network within military units, Brave1, or defense procurement bodies.
• Experience with international grant programs or partnerships in the defense sector.

Working Conditions:

• Convenient office in the center of Kyiv.
• Direct engagement with the company’s leadership and its defense-tech portfolio.
• Competitive compensation aligned with market rates for this position.
• Opportunity to shape the commercial strategy of a rapidly scaling defense-tech business from an early stage.

Our client applies AI to Ukraine's drone fleet, flying on live combat missions. The company is partnered with some of the major OEMs and brigades in Ukraine, and its AI is also deployed on EU platforms.

The company was built on a simple premise: deterrence is proven in the field, not built in a laboratory. The team is hiring engineers who want their work tested by reality, not a simulator.

Ukraine's drone fleet spans a huge range of sensors and airframes, evolving constantly under real operational pressure. This role builds the layer that sits between drone hardware and software - standardising that chaos so the AI can scale across hardware platforms without being rebuilt each time.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure multiple sensor types to software and normalise their output so the AI can scale across hardware platforms without being rebuilt each time.
• Work directly with physical platforms, alongside the flight test team, to get new hardware onto the fleet fast.
• Communicate directly with OEM R&D and engineering teams and influence platform design across the frontline and in the EU.

• Expand what company’s AI can fly with every airframe and sensor brought online, and how quickly it reaches the frontline. 

   

Requirements

• Strong systems/embedded software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience integrating diverse sensors and hardware into a common software interface.
• Comfort working close to the metal - firmware, drivers, hardware quirks - not just clean abstractions.
• A willingness to get hands dirty - this is not a desk-only job.

• Bilingual English/Ukrainian is a bonus but not necessary. 

   

Company Offer

• Top-of-market compensation + equity.
• Work that ships to combat within days, not years.
• Military exemption (reservation) may be provided, subject to available company quota.

We are looking for a UAV Equipment Test Engineer to work with drone equipment and unmanned systems in the defense sector.

The main focus of this role is testing equipment in real-world conditions, identifying technical issues, and collecting feedback to help improve the product.

Responsibilities:

• Test and validate UAV and drone-related equipment;
• Conduct field tests and evaluate equipment performance;
• Identify, document, and report technical issues;
• Collect feedback from end users and communicate it to the engineering team;
• Work directly with military units and brigades during testing and implementation;
• Support continuous improvement of the equipment based on test results and field feedback.
  
  Requirements:
• Hands-on experience with UAVs, drones, or related equipment;
• Strong technical background and understanding of unmanned systems;
• Experience working with or alongside military units/brigades;
• Ability to diagnose technical issues and clearly document test results;
• Willingness to work hands-on with hardware and participate in field testing.
• Military service or veteran experience would be a strong advantage.
  
  What we offer:
• Full-time position;
• UAH 40,000 during the probation period;
• Opportunity to work directly with UAV hardware and real-world defense applications;
• Compensation review after successful completion of the probation period.
  
  If you have relevant experience, please apply with your CV and briefly describe the UAVs or drone equipment you have worked with.

We are looking for a Business Development & Integration Manager to develop international technology partnerships in the defense and unmanned systems sector.
 

The main focus of the role is identifying potential partners among US, UK, and Ukrainian companies, reaching the right decision-makers, developing partnership opportunities, and turning them into successful technology integrations.
 

Responsibilities:

• Research and identify potential technology partners in the US, UK, and Ukraine;
• Find and reach relevant decision-makers within target companies;
• Manage outbound communication and initial partnership discussions;
• Present potential integration opportunities and identify mutual value;
• Negotiate partnership and integration agreements;
• Coordinate the process from the first contact through integration;
• Maintain relationships with partners and support further cooperation.
   

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in Business Development, Partnerships, B2B Sales, or a related role;
• Strong English for business communication and negotiations;
• Experience independently researching companies and finding decision-makers;
• Strong communication and negotiation skills;
• Ability to manage the full process from initial outreach to a concrete agreement;
• Experience working with international markets.

Experience in Defense Tech, UAV, Hardware, Robotics, or other technology products would be a strong advantage.
 

What we offer:

• Full-time position;
• Remote work;
• UAH 40,000 during the probation period;
• Starting from the 3rd month, additional performance-based bonuses as a percentage of successful integrations;
• Opportunity to work directly with companies and partners across the US, UK, and Ukraine.
   

If you have experience in international BD or partnerships and know how to turn outreach into actual business agreements, we would be happy to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Monitor data completeness, accuracy, and timeliness across databases, dashboards, and reports.
• Investigate discrepancies, identify root causes, and coordinate fixes with business, BI, Data Engineering, and IT teams.
• Handle BI support requests, including incorrect metrics, missing data, report refresh issues, and access problems.
• Validate reporting logic and help users understand key metrics.
• Maintain data quality checks, help automate recurring controls, and document common issues.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in Data Quality, Data Analysis, BI Support, CRM analytics, or a related role.
• Hands-on experience validating data and troubleshooting reporting discrepancies.
• Strong Excel and SQL skills.
• Experience with BI reports and an understanding of how data moves from source systems to dashboards.
• Clear communication with users and technical teams.

Nice to have

Experience with Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Apps, or automated data quality checks.

Our client company applies AI to Ukraine's drone fleet, flying on live combat missions. The company is partnered with some of the major OEMs and brigades in Ukraine, and its AI is also deployed on EU platforms.

The company was built on a simple premise: deterrence is proven in the field, not built in a laboratory. The company is hiring a Chief Engineer who wants to keep building, not step away from it.

This role leads the Pilot and Platform engineering teams - not through day-to-day people management or payroll, but through architecture, product decisions and direct technical leadership. A CTO sits above this role to handle strategy, business and financing; this position exists so that whoever holds it can stay close to the code and the customer instead of being pulled upward into the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the product team to shape product development
• Own system architecture across the flight autopilot and hardware/platform layers
• Drive both the Pilot and Platform engineering teams to ship
• Lead product and architectural decisions, guide the teams, participate in recruiting

• Stay hands-on in the codebase (roughly half of the role)

   

Requirements

• Deep hands-on engineering expertise and strong credibility in the codebase
• Experience owning system architecture across complex, hardware-adjacent software systems
• A track record of driving engineering teams to ship without formal management authority
• Comfort working closely with product and OEM stakeholders on real-world trade-offs
• A build-first mentality - this is primarily a technical role, not a strategy or business-focused role

Company Offer

• Top-of-market compensation + equity
• A senior technical role that allows you to stay hands-on, close to both the code and the customer
• Direct influence over the architecture and a product deployed in real-world combat environments
• Military exemption (reservation) may be provided, subject to available company quota

We are a Kyiv-based international startup engineering the next generation of fixed-wing UAVs. To support our rapid growth, we are looking for a hands-on engineer to take ownership of prototype development, structural build, systems integration, and field testing.

Our global team combines decades of aerospace experience to build cutting-edge unmanned systems from the ground up. With high-velocity iteration cycles and deep backing from our investors and

customers, we are focused entirely on delivering world-class results.

Your role

• Contribute to aircraft development from initial concepts through prototype testing.
• Select, assemble, and integrate components across hardware and software.
• Support ground and flight testing, analyse results and troubleshoot issues.
• Work in multiple domains, like aircraft design, powertrain, aerodynamics and GNC.

Your profile

• Practical engineering experience or substantial personal or university projects.
• A hands-on approach: ready to build, test, troubleshoot, and learn new systems.
• Ability to work independently, explain technical decisions, and collaborate in a small team.
• English required.

Experience in ANY of the following is a plus

• Aerodynamics: fixed-wing analysis and CFD simulation.
• Aircraft design and sizing: conceptual design, performance modelling and simulation using MATLAB, Python or comparable tools.
• Powertrain: electric propulsion; combustion or hybrid propulsion experience also welcome.
• Systems engineering: requirements, interfaces, integration and verification.
• GNC: flight controls, navigation and autopilot integration, particularly ArduPilot.
• Airborne electronics: component selection, avionics integration, circuit or PCB development.

The offer

• Full-time, Kyiv. On-site preferred, hybrid possible.
• Decent employee stock options plan (ESOP).
• Start date: as early as possible.
• Conscription Booking.

Why join us

• Influence key aircraft design decisions from an early stage.
• Develop, build and test: take your work from analysis to real hardware.
• Choose technical approaches, propose ideas and test them with short decision paths.
• Become a core team member to shape how the company works, take on more responsibility as it grows, and grow with it.

We integrate advanced automation, AI, and robotics to develop security and defense solutions. Our focus is on intelligent systems that combine embedded software, computer vision, and edge-AI for autonomous platforms.

We are looking for an engineer who understands that modern computer vision is built on deep learning — not classical algorithms. You will design and deploy CV systems for autonomous platforms in real-world defense conditions.
 

What you’ll do:

• Develop high-performance C++ computer vision pipelines — detection, tracking, segmentation
• Integrate and optimize ML models on edge devices using TensorRT and ONNX Runtime
• Build real-time video pipelines — streaming, preprocessing, inference, post-processing
• Write Python for ML experiments, data processing, and simulation workflows
• Optimize system performance — multithreading, memory management, GPU acceleration
• Integrate cameras, sensors, and compute modules
• Develop on Embedded Linux with low-level hardware integration
• Debug and profile real-time systems under operational constraints

Technical skills

Must have:

• Strong C++ (C++17/20, STL, multithreading, memory management)
• Deep learning as the foundation of CV work — CNN architectures (YOLO, ResNet, EfficientDet), understanding of Transformer-based approaches (ViT, DETR)
• Hands-on ML deployment on edge devices — TensorRT, ONNX Runtime
• Python at ML engineer level — PyTorch or TensorFlow, NumPy, OpenCV
• Edge-AI platforms — Jetson, Hailo, Coral
• Video pipeline experience — GStreamer, FFmpeg
• Embedded Linux — Ubuntu, Debian or Yocto
• Git and CI/CD

Nice to have:

• CUDA / GPU programming
• Model optimization — quantization, pruning
• ROS / ROS2
• Real-time systems and profiling tools
• Classical CV — calibration, 3D vision, SLAM
• Simulators — Gazebo, Isaac Sim
• MAVLink / ArduPilot / PX4
• Docker / DevOps
• Low-level optimization — SIMD, ARM NEON

What we offer:

• Impact: Ownership over mission-critical autonomous/robotics systems.
• Autonomy: Full technical freedom — choose tools, architect solutions, drive decisions. Minimal bureaucracy.
• Unique Domain: Rare expertise that strengthens your aerospace/defense resume.
• Growth: Regular salary reviews with performance-based increases.
• Remote Work: 100% remote, flexible schedule, core sync hours.
• Learning: Professional courses and certifications aligned with your role.
• Team: Work alongside experienced engineers tackling cutting-edge challenges in edge-AI, computer vision, and real-time robotics.
• Mission: Direct contribution to Ukraine’s defense capabilities and European security resilience.

If this resonates with you, don’t wait — reach out today! We’re looking forward to meeting you:)

The Defense Procurement Agency (DOT) is a national agency responsible for procuring ammunition, UAVs, military equipment, fuel, food, clothing, and other critical supplies for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Defense Forces.

Our mission: Strengthening Ukraine by ensuring reliable support for the Defense Forces while fostering the development of the national defense industry.

Our vision: To become the driving force behind the transformation of Ukraine's defense procurement ecosystem—not only operating the system, but continuously improving it.

We are looking for a Tech Lead / Senior DevSecOps to provide technical leadership to the Security Engineering team, develop information security architecture, implement security solutions across the Microsoft ecosystem, and integrate security requirements into infrastructure and software development processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the Security Engineering team, including prioritizing and distributing tasks, mentoring team members, and ensuring the quality of implementation.
• Design and develop information security architecture and key cybersecurity capabilities, including Cloud Security, Identity & Access Management, Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps, and Incident Response.
• Implement, administer, and develop security services across the Microsoft security ecosystem.
• Conduct security reviews of infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, and Software Engineering teams to integrate security requirements into architecture and development processes.
• Develop the AI Security function, including AI Security Proxy, AI Governance, DLP, monitoring, and auditing.
• Develop technical security standards, guidelines, recommendations, and information security documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity roles such as Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, or DevSecOps Engineer, with hands-on experience in Azure Security and Microsoft Security.
• Hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft security services, including Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Intune, Entra ID, Purview, and related solutions.
• Experience building and developing Vulnerability Management processes.
• Strong understanding of modern DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD security, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), SAST, DAST, Secret Scanning, and IaC Security.
• Hands-on experience securing containerized environments and Kubernetes.
• Experience with information security incident analysis and response.
• Previous technical leadership experience or strong Senior Security Engineer experience with the readiness to take on a Tech Lead role.

What We Offer

• Meaningful work that directly contributes to strengthening Ukraine's defense capabilities.
• Official employment with competitive salary and full social benefits.
• Professional development, learning opportunities, and career growth.
• Structured onboarding and dedicated mentorship.
• A collaborative, supportive, and mission-driven team.
• Modern office near the metro with reliable internet and equipped shelter.

By joining our team, you will contribute to one of Ukraine's largest digital transformation initiatives in the defense sector and help build the future of defense procurement.

Ready to make a real impact? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today!

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** Due to the high volume of applications, only candidates whose qualifications best match the position will be contacted.