VP, US Engineering

UFORCE

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About The Position

UFORCE is seeking a US VP of Engineering to build and lead its US technical organization and bring the company’s battlefield-proven products to US defense customers. The role will adapt products for a new operating environment, making them secure, compliant with US requirements, ready to deploy and sustain, and connected to UFORCE’s global platform.

The VP reports to the US CEO and serves on the Global Technical Leadership Team, partnering closely with the Global CTO and Global Engineering to translate US customer needs into engineering priorities. This is a hands-on leadership position rather than oversight of an established team. During the first 6–12 months, the VP will personally support customer deployments, military exercises, software integrations and on-premises installations. As the business grows, the VP will recruit deployment engineers, mission engineers, product engineers and technical program managers.

Requirements

• Track record of delivering complex technical programs for US Department of Defense customers, with an understanding of defense acquisition, security, compliance and operational constraints.
• Hands-on experience leading software deployments, systems integrations, troubleshooting and customer-facing technical engagements, and willingness to perform this work while building the team.
• Strong systems architecture judgment, including defining data and security boundaries and balancing customer-specific requirements with a common product platform.
• Experience translating ITAR, cybersecurity and regulatory requirements into practical engineering architectures and operating practices.
• Security-first approach to engineering, with documentation and compliance evidence built into delivery rather than added at the end.
• Experience establishing engineering operating rhythms, roadmap priorities, review processes and delivery accountability in an evolving organization.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop and lead technical teams, with clear expectations and a strong engineering culture.
• Clear communication across customers, business leaders and global engineering teams, including explaining tradeoffs, resolving competing priorities and translating operational feedback into product decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience bringing an international technology platform into the US defense market while preserving shared architecture and engineering standards.
• Experience delivering integrated hardware-and-software systems in operational or field environments.
• Familiarity with manufacturing readiness, including testability, provisioning and configuration control.
• Experience building sustainment capabilities, including support tooling, documentation and long-term operational processes.
• Experience developing technical partnerships with primes, vendors or labs while protecting intellectual property.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution for US customer deployments, exercises, demonstrations and evaluations, serving as the senior technical escalation point; personally support 3–5 deployments or technical engagements in the first six months.
• Turn early deployments into a repeatable operation by creating playbooks, troubleshooting guides, integration checklists and feedback processes that reduce reliance on ad hoc support from Global Engineering.
• Define the US reference architecture, including systems, data flows, security boundaries, deployment patterns, manufacturing interfaces and sustainment needs.
• Establish ITAR-aware engineering practices and identify US-only requirements, working with Global Engineering and US leadership to meet regional obligations without unnecessarily splitting the global platform.
• Translate customer feedback and field experience into a prioritized US technical roadmap, balancing customer impact, business priorities, engineering capacity and delivery risk.
• Put architecture, security and release-readiness reviews into practice, document technical decisions, and drive cybersecurity risks to resolution or approved mitigation plans.
• Build a regular working rhythm with Global Engineering so US customer learnings lead to timely decisions and shared product improvements.
• Design and build the US technical organization by defining hiring priorities, recruiting and developing talent, and establishing ownership, performance standards and escalation paths.
• Grow the team’s capacity to support multiple customer programs concurrently.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed