Field Engineer & Military Liaison

Edge Run is a Western hardware company building a powered exoskeleton — currently a belt-and-hip assistive system — for Ukrainian frontline units. Edge Run's prototypes are moving to brigade trials, and the most important work right now is not in the lab. It is in the conversations that happen after a soldier has worn the device for a week. Edge Run is hiring the person who owns those conversations. You will live between the Kyiv bench and the units using Edge Run gear: running fittings, training operators, collecting field feedback, and turning it into work the engineering team can act on.

Field Engineer & Military Liaison
Full-time
English: Upper-intermediate

What you will do

  • Map and build relationships with the operational units running Edge Run trials — points of contact, commanders, end users, and the people who actually fit and wear the device.
  • Spend significant time at units and training grounds: deliver and fit equipment, run short training sessions, and observe real use.
  • Design and own the feedback intake: the questions you ask after a field session, how you log responses, and how they become engineering work items.
  • Triage problems in the field — distinguish operator error from a fitting issue from an actual hardware fault, and escalate cleanly to the bench team.
  • Represent Edge Run on the ground: with brigades, military medics, defense-tech ecosystem contacts, and partner foundations.
  • Feed the engineering team a steady, written stream of what soldiers complain about, what they ignore, and what they ask for.

What we need

  • 3+ years of relevant experience. Two profiles fit well: (a) a technically literate engineer with strong people skills, or (b) a recently demobilized officer or NCO with an engineering education or signals, UAV, or EW operator background.
  • Comfort with frontline units: prior service, prior work with a military unit, or well-developed instincts for how to behave around soldiers and commanders.
  • Enough technical literacy to read a basic schematic, recognise common failure modes, and explain a hardware issue clearly to both a soldier and an engineer.
  • Native Ukrainian; working English (B1+) — written reports go to a non-Ukrainian-speaking team.
  • Excellent written communication. Field notes that engineers can act on without a follow-up call.
  • Willing and able to travel across Ukraine, including periodic visits to areas under threat.
  • Based in Kyiv or willing to relocate. Office days when not travelling.

Strongly preferred

  • Officer or NCO command experience in a combat or combat-support role since 2022.
  • Existing trusted relationships with operational units.
  • Experience running training, courses, or technical hand-overs to military end users.
  • Familiarity with the Ukrainian defense-tech ecosystem (Brave1, Defence Builder, Veteran Hub) and the procurement and trial pathways inside it.
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