Founder & CTO (gn) @ Stealth DefenceTech (Autonomous Systems), Europe

Job description

The future of European defence is autonomous. We're backing the founders who'll build it. That sentence either made your pulse spike or it didn't. If it did, keep reading. European defence needs sovereign autonomous systems. No European hardware-AI champion exists in this category yet. We intend to build one. We're assembling the founding team for a stealth defence technology company. The domain sits at the intersection of embedded AI, computer vision, autonomous systems, and hardware that operates in environments where GPS doesn't work and comms are near-zero. The systems we're building must think for themselves. The Role: You will be the technical co-founder. Not employee #1. Not a VP of Engineering at someone else's company. The person who defines the architecture, hires the first five engineers, and puts a working prototype into the field. You will own: The full autonomy stack: guidance, navigation, control, sensor fusion, GPS-denied operation Embedded AI on edge compute, running onboard systems that cannot phone home for instructions Computer vision and perception in extreme, comms-denied environments The operator interface: if an operator can't deploy in under 10 minutes, we'...