Defence Technical Expert

DARC helps European, US and allied defence companies enter the Ukrainian market. The role is a technical authority who assesses products, runs technical conversations, and coordinates between client engineers and Ukrainian partners. This is not an engineering role.

• Join pre-sale calls as the technical voice alongside the founders
• Assess a client's product against the Ukrainian requirement and write the honest answer, including when the answer is no
• Define what has to change for the product to work here, and in what sequence
• Structure and run technical negotiations between client engineers and Ukrainian partners
• Build the technical sections of proposals
• Support integration and trials, and turn partner feedback into something a client's engineering team can act on
• Keep our own technical picture current. What is being used, what is failing, what is being replaced

• A working understanding of how this war is fought
• Expertise in unmanned systems across domains. FPV, fixed wing, fibre-optic, ground, naval. What they are built from, what fails first, and what is replacing what
• One area of real technical depth. Electronics and RF, EW, propulsion, optics and sensors, autonomy and software, materials, energetics. We need one properly, plus the literacy to follow a conversation in the others
• Experience sitting in front of an external customer and giving them a technical answer they did not want to hear
• Fluent English. You will speak and write to CTOs and heads of engineering every day
• Native Ukrainian
• Ability to explain a complex system in writing, without jargon, to a commercial reader
• Strong plus: Background in a Ukrainian manufacturer's R&D or integration team
• Strong plus: Military engineering, acceptance testing, codification, or admission of product for supply
• Strong plus: Pre-sale, solutions or field application engineering at a component or systems vendor

• Direct work with foreign manufacturers and tier-one players in Ukraine and abroad
• Visibility across dozens of foreign products and Ukrainian requirements at the same time, which is a view almost nobody has
• Travel to European defence exhibitions
• Competitive salary with a performance component tied to delivery on signed mandates
• Salary review every quarter