FoundingEngineer

Founding Engineer – Maritime Defence Technology Europe needs new maritime capabilities Europe's security, energy infrastructure, and economic resilience increasingly depend on what happens at sea. Yet vast areas of the maritime domain remain difficult to monitor, understand, and operate within. Critical infrastructure spans thousands of kilometres. Underwater environments remain data-poor, communications are constrained, and many existing systems were designed for a different era. At the same time, advances in AI, autonomy, sensing, edge computing, and hardware are making entirely new approaches possible. We're building a new defence technology company around a simple belief: the next generation of maritime and subsea capabilities will be built with software, intelligent systems, and modern hardware at their core. We're assembling the founding team and looking for a Founding Engineer to help create the technology from day one. The Opportunity This is not a role maintaining an existing product. There is no engineering organisation, no inherited architecture, and no years of accumulated technical debt. The opportunity is to help build a company from first principles around one of the most important and underexplored areas in European defence technology. You'll work directly with the founder and Atlantic.vc to turn a thesis into deployed capability. From the earliest technical decisions through to field testing and customer feedback, you'll help shape both the product and the engineering culture of the company. This is a chance to have disproportionate influence on what gets built and how it's built. What You'll Build The exact product will be shaped by the founding team, but you'll work across some combination of: * Maritime and subsea systems * Autonomous platforms and intelligent software * AI and machine learning at the edge * Sensor fusion, perception, and situational awareness * Navigation and localisation in constrained environments * Mission software and operat