Lead UAS Systems & Edge AI Architect

About Promethion Industries

Promethion Industries is a European defence technology company building autonomous supremacy systems for aerial and multi-domain operations. Our mission is to enable decisive autonomy for NATO-aligned forces - through tightly integrated autonomy stacks designed and built in Europe. Our focus is defensive and counter-system capabilities, including anti-UAS and resilient autonomy under contested conditions.

We are looking for a Lead UAS Systems & Edge AI Architect.

Your mission with us

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Own the end-to-end technical architecture of our autonomous aerial systems.

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Define how flight control, edge compute, sensors, perception, state estimation, autonomy, RF/C2 and payload systems work together as one aircraft.

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Define and maintain clear subsystem interfaces, timing budgets, compute budgets and integration.

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Turn research prototypes into deployable airborne systems with clear interfaces, timing requirements and compute allocation.

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Architect the onboard compute stack across flight controllers, embedded Linux systems, GPUs and dedicated accelerators.

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Make pragmatic decisions between ROS2, existing middleware and custom high-performance runtime components.

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Lead rapid integration of new cameras, sensing modalities, AI models and autonomy algorithms onto flying platforms.

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Work directly with the aircraft, flight-test team and engineering leads to identify system bottlenecks and resolve them quickly.

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Drive the system from laboratory prototypes toward robust, repeatable field operation.

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Maintain a strong understanding of weight, power, thermal, latency, bandwidth and reliability constraints.

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Own technical quality across subsystem boundaries and prevent local engineering decisions from compromising overall system performance.

Your contribution to the team (required)

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Significant hands-on experience architecting and deploying complex robotic or autonomous systems.

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Strong experience with real hardware — not simulation-only development.

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Experience deploying perception, autonomy or AI workloads onto embedded / edge compute.

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Strong understanding of robotics software architecture, sensor pipelines and real-time systems.

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Solid C++ and Linux background.

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Experience with ROS / ROS2 or comparable robotics middleware.

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Strong understanding of embedded compute, networking and hardware interfaces.

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Ability to reason across perception, estimation, planning, flight control and embedded systems.

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Proven ability to move quickly from system concept to working prototype.

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Comfortable working directly with flight hardware, logs, telemetry and test equipment.

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Proven experience taking at least one complex robotic or autonomous system from prototype to deployed operation.

Even if you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply - we’d love to hear from you.

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