{"id":4025847,"url":"https://alion.io/job/uforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer","title":"Forward Deployed Software Engineer","company":{"id":1922281,"name":"UFORCE","domain":"uforce.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/uforce-com","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"DHCP","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TCP/IP","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"Helm","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T13:57:23Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T16:52:24Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"UFORCE exists to make aggression unaffordable.\nFounded in Ukraine and headquartered in London, UFORCE is a defence-technology company with operations across Europe, the United States and Asia.\nUFORCE 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.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to make UFORCE systems work reliably in the field. You’ll work alongside engineers, operators and customers during trials, demonstrations, training and deployments, resolving issues and turning field experience into practical improvements.\nSoftware is your primary discipline, but this is not a desk-based software role. It’s a hands-on, deployed position where you’ll work across the wider system, from networking and communications to equipment setup and operator workflows.\nYou don’t need deep mechanical, marine or electronics expertise. We’re looking for strong software skills, practical operational experience and the ability to learn quickly.\nThe role is a remote based role, with regular travel to field sites and customer locations locally and internationally.\nWhat You Will Do\nOwn technical execution in the field: deploying, configuring, and supporting our systems during trials, demonstrations, training, and customer activity, often with limited backup.\n\nManage the software side of deployments, including baselines, versions, configuration control, release notes, validation checks, and rollback and recovery procedures.\n\nDiagnose faults across the whole deployed system using structured fault isolation, separating software, hardware, network, comms, power, sensor, configuration, operator, and environmental causes.\n\nRead logs, reproduce issues, test hypotheses, and capture clear evidence, then hand issues back to Engineering with enough context to act on them quickly.\n\nWrite scripts and small tools that automate checks, validate configuration, parse logs, and reduce manual work in the field.\n\nPrepare for field activity by checking equipment, cabling, compute setup, spares, tools, checklists, and documentation. Support practical tasks beyond software, such as system setup and compute swaps, and improve preparation so deployments become faster and more repeatable.\n\nTurn field observations into clear feedback for Software, Product, Operations, and Engineering, closing the gap between what is built, what is deployed, and what the customer expects.\n\nSupport operators and customers during demonstrations and training, explain technical issues clearly to both specialist and non-specialist audiences, and help customers become more self-sufficient after handover.\n\nImprove software readiness over time, including observability, release discipline, documentation, and knowledge transfer, so the field depends less on engineering reach-back.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong software engineering ability as your primary discipline, with skills in Python and/or C++ for debugging, log analysis, and system maintenance.\n\nYou can read, write, and debug code and scripts and are comfortable with version control, APIs, services, and logs.\n\nSystems-minded judgment. You can explain interfaces, dependencies, and trade-offs across software, compute, networking, comms, sensors, hardware, and field operations, and you avoid assuming that every problem is a software problem.\n\nExperience deploying and configuring Linux-based software systems, including package management, services, containers, updates, rollbacks, and repeatable deployment methods.\n\nPractical field troubleshooting experience in deployed or operational settings, such as military or global operations, motorsport, field engineering, remote production, customer sites, maritime, robotics, aerospace, or automotive environments.\n\nWorking knowledge of networking and integration, including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and how to tell a software failure from a connectivity, sensor, or data-link problem.\n\nOperational discipline: you prepare thoroughly, use checklists, manage risk, escalate sensibly, and stay calm under pressure.\n\nClear technical communication, including structured, unambiguous reporting that Engineering can act on and operators can understand.\n\nA team-first, high-ownership approach. You work well with a small, multidisciplinary team, including during extended deployments, and are willing to travel regularly and support field activity.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience with robotics, uncrewed systems, autonomy or mission software, sensors, telemetry, operator interfaces, or defence trials.\n\nExperience deploying software to edge compute or in disconnected environments, including containers and orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and controlled updates.\n\nFamiliarity with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, or Terraform.\n\nExperience representing a technical team in customer demonstrations, trials, training, or deployments.\n\nExperience working in security-sensitive or controlled environments.\n\nThe nature of combat has changed.\nTomorrow’s battlefield success depends on autonomy, speed, and adaptability.\nAnd UFORCE is ready.\nAre You?","description_format":"text","description_chars":5459,"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":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Military","Penetration Testing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T16:52:24Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":45,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T18:53:52Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/uforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/uforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T18:53:52Z","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":9379,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"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":1922281},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1922281"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fuforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"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%2Fuforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"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%2Fuforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer"},{"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/uforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fuforce-forward-deployed-software-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4025847}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"uforce.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4025847},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}