Deployed Software Engineer

Deployed Software Engineer

📍 UK-based | Defence Tech

🚀 Customer-Facing + Real-World Deployments

Why this role is exciting

This isn’t a desk-only engineering role. You’ll be deploying cutting-edge AI software into real operational environments — working alongside customers, robots, autonomous systems, and mission-critical technology in the field.

Join a well-funded defence AI company building the software backbone for next-generation sensors, robotics, and autonomous platforms.

You’ll see your work used in the real world, solve problems on the ground, and shape the product directly through customer interaction and deployment experience.

What you’ll be doing

  • Deploying software directly into customer and field environments
  • Working closely with end users to solve real operational challenges
  • Writing integration code connecting data systems, sensors, workflows, and autonomous platforms
  • Collaborating across AI/ML, robotics, networking, and engineering teams
  • Feeding real-world deployment insights back into core product engineering
  • Supporting testing, troubleshooting, and iteration in live environments

The technical challenges

  • Building software that operates outside controlled lab conditions
  • Working hands-on with robotics, autonomy, sensors, and distributed systems
  • Solving complex integration problems in unfamiliar and fast-changing environments
  • Delivering features that directly impact mission-critical systems
  • Owning deployments end-to-end with high autonomy from day one

What they’re looking for

  • Strong software engineering skills in languages such as Python, C++, Java, Rust, or TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another technical discipline
  • Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with customers/users
  • Comfortable travelling regularly and working on-site when needed
  • Engineers who enjoy fast-paced, hands-on problem-solving in the real world

Important to know

⚠️ UK Right to Work required

⚠️ Must be eligible for — or willing to undergo — UK security clearance

Job Details

Company
Understanding Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
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