Founder (gn) @ Maritime Defence Technology, Germany

Job description

Founder & CEO – Maritime Defence Technology Europe needs new maritime capabilities. Europe's security, energy infrastructure, and economic resilience depend on the maritime domain. Yet vast areas of the sea remain difficult to monitor, understand, and protect. Critical infrastructure is increasingly distributed, underwater activity is becoming harder to track, and the systems used across maritime defence were largely designed for a different era. At the same time, a new generation of technologies is becoming available. Advances in AI, autonomy, sensing, edge computing, and low-cost hardware are making it possible to build entirely new kinds of maritime systems. We believe this creates an opportunity to build an important new defence technology company. We're assembling the founding team around a thesis focused on maritime and subsea systems, and we're looking for the founder who wants to lead it. The Opportunity: This is not a role inside an existing company. There is no organisation to inherit, no roadmap to execute against, and no legacy technology to maintain. Instead, there is an opportunity to build a company from first principles around one of the most important and underexpl...