Build the hardware Europe stopped building.

Run a public-company close from day one. Build the books, the controls, and the audit posture a defence prime is held to.

Own the embedded stack on every Varn airframe. Hire and lead the team writing flight-critical firmware in Rust and C++.

Run the Varn test range. Own safety, sortie cadence, and the relationship with allied test authorities.

Architect the flight code that runs from boot to engagement. You will be writing it, not just steering the people who do.

Guidance, navigation, and control for an interceptor airframe that must close on a moving target in a contested band.

Solid and hybrid systems, from ignition charge through burn-out. Bench work, sled work, and the paperwork that lets us fly.

Survive in jammed and degraded environments. Antenna design, link discipline, and counter-counter measures.

Layup, autoclave, and the structural margin that lets the airframe take a hit and keep flying. Shop-floor first.

Planning, perception, and the kill-chain logic that hands control to the operator at exactly the right instant.

Edge inference on a 7-watt power budget. Tracking through clutter, weather, and adversarial inputs.

Rust and modern C++ on Cortex-M and Jetson class hardware. RTOS or bare-metal, your call to defend.

The data plane underneath every Varn mission console. Streams from edge to ops centre, with the latency budget of a sensor.

Front-of-house software that an operator can use at 3 a.m. on five hours of sleep. TypeScript, WebGL, and very few buttons.

Terrain, weather, and the truth on the ground, fused into a single tactical picture that an LCO can trust.

Threat-model the platform that runs allied sortie data. Red-team your own code, then prove it to a sovereign auditor.

Keep mission software up while ten different navies push different versions of the same component on the same Tuesday.

Mixed-signal PCB design, EMC, and ruggedisation for a sensor pack that has to survive the same flight envelope as the airframe.

Walk a unit from the last station to flight-ready. Author the work instructions and the takt that ships ten a week.

Five-axis on 7075 and titanium, working from drawings that will be on a flight log inside ninety days.

Stand up the second floor. Hire the first sixty operators. Be on the floor at the morning huddle every day.

Plan the sortie, run the safety case, and read the telemetry on a winter morning at the test range. No theatre.

Bridge the cockpit and the lab. Instrumentation, post-flight reduction, and the long conversations with the airframe lead.

Dual-source the long-lead items before the news cycle does it for us. Allied suppliers only, audited annually.

Deployable. Stand up customer sites in allied territory. Be the technical face of Varn in the room with the operator.

EU dual-use regulation, ITAR-equivalent regimes, and the contract clauses that decide whether a system ships or sits.

Speak for Varn in the rooms where European defence policy gets written. Calm, accurate, and on the record.

Find the next forty engineers without using a contingency agency. You will own the inbound and the outbound.

Programme leadership on a maritime line we are not discussing publicly yet. Speak to the founder if your name is on the shortlist.

Four-year apprenticeship under our senior composite and assembly leads. Paid from day one. No degree required.

For currently serving aircrew and avionics specialists. One week a month, paid, classified work, no theatre.