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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.\nAbout the role\nUFORCE 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.\nOur 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.\nYou 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.\nThis is not a role for someone who wants to manage engineering from a distance. 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including areas such as range, endurance, payload, accuracy, survivability, speed, reliability, and operator effectiveness.\n\nAccelerate the path from mission need to tested and fielded capability through rapid, evidence-led build-test-learn cycles.\n\nEstablish and maintain a coherent technical baseline across requirements, system architecture, interfaces, configurations, and regional product variants.\n\nEnsure designs are manufacturable, testable, maintainable, supportable, and capable of being produced repeatedly at the required rate and quality.\n\nUse test, deployment, exercise, operator, and combat evidence to diagnose failures, establish root causes, and drive verified corrective action.\n\nLead high-quality requirements, architecture, design, integration, test-readiness, and release-readiness reviews without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.\n\nBuild and develop a lean, high-performing cross-disciplinary engineering team with clear ownership, strong technical standards, 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