{"id":155050,"url":"https://alion.io/job/auterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer","company":{"id":54288,"name":"Auterion","domain":"auterion.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/auterion","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":82,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.714,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":48,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":80000,"max_usd":183000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":226},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"ArduPilot","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"MAVLink","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-27T11:07:40Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T03:24:52Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":143,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":142},"description":"As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Auterion, you will sit at the front line of our most ambitious sales engagements, working directly with defence and commercial customers to design, demonstrate and deploy autonomy solutions built on AuterionOS. This is a hands-on, flight-line role: you will build, fly and troubleshoot drone systems in front of customers, translate operational requirements into technical solutions, and give our sales and mission development teams the credibility to win the largest and most complex programmes.\nYou will bring real, practical experience of building and flying unmanned aircraft, ideally on PX4 or ArduPilot, combined with a strong grounding in avionics or aeronautical engineering. This is not a desk-bound pre-sales role. You will be expected to get your hands dirty integrating payloads, tuning autopilots, running test flights and solving problems live in front of customers and partners.\nResponsibilities and Duties\nAct as the lead technical authority in customer engagements, translating mission requirements into concrete system architectures and demonstrable solutions built on AuterionOS and Skynode.\nBuild, configure, integrate and fly drone platforms using PX4 or ArduPilot to support customer trials, technical demonstrations and proof-of-concept deployments.\nDesign and deliver technical demonstrations, flight trials and integration proofs that showcase AuterionOS capability against customer and NATO/defence requirements.\nProvide deep avionics and airframe expertise, including autopilot tuning, sensor and payload integration, power systems and airworthiness considerations.\nPartner with the sales and business development team to shape bids, technical proposals and RFI/RFP responses, ensuring solutions are credible, deployable and differentiated.\nDiagnose and resolve technical issues in the field during customer trials and demonstrations, working across flight stack, hardware and software layers.\nBuild strong relationships with customer engineers and operators, acting as a trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle and into deployment.\nFeed customer and market requirements back into product and engineering teams to influence the AuterionOS roadmap.\nSupport test activities, exhibitions, customer visits and operational deployments across the UK and NATO ecosystem, including significant travel.\nProduce clear technical documentation, solution architectures and integration guidance to support bids and deployments.\nQualifications and Skills\nDemonstrable hands-on experience building and flying drones, ideally using PX4 or ArduPilot.\nProven hands on experience with C++, Docker & Linux.\nStrong background in avionics, aeronautical engineering or a related discipline, with practical understanding of airframes, autopilots, sensors and payload integration.\nExperience working with MAVLink, ground control stations and flight test procedures.\nProven ability to operate as a technical lead in front of customers, including live demonstrations and field troubleshooting.\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical detail into clear, compelling customer-facing narratives.\nExperience supporting sales, business development or pre-sales engineering functions is highly desirable.\nDegree in Aeronautical Engineering, Avionics, Electronics, Physics or a related engineering discipline preferred.\nComfortable with frequent travel and field deployment, including to customer and partner sites across the UK and NATO nations.\nUK citizenship and eligibility for UK security clearance required.\nBenefits\nFlexible working hours\nStock Options\nGenerous holiday allowance\nCompany pension plan \nMental health and wellbeing support\nRegular team social events\nAbout Auterion\nWe are building the leading software platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers. Our team is supporting the most important missions and solving the most challenging problems.\nAt Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. \nJoin a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4242,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Drones & UAVs","Operating Systems","Military Drones","Robotic Software & Control Systems"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-05-27T11:07:40Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":9,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.335,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":142,"expected_fill_days":48,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/auterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/auterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T03:44:50Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5849,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":54288},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=54288"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fauterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fauterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fauterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/auterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fauterion-forward-deployed-engineer-2"}]}