Field Engineer & Military Liaison

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.

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.