Founder(gn)

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 underexplored areas in European defence technology. The exact product will be shaped with the founding team, but our conviction is clear: maritime and subsea environments are becoming strategically more important, while advances in software and intelligent systems are creating entirely new ways to operate within them. The company that successfully combines deep customer understanding with exceptional technology execution has the potential to become a critical supplier to governments and allied organisations across Europe. Who We're Looking For We're looking for a founder first. You may be an engineer, product leader, operator, researcher, defence professional, or entrepreneur. You may come from a defence company, a maritime business, a robotics startup, a software company, a research institute, or a