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Director of Engineering - Mission Intelligence

Zurich💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Director of Engineering leading Mission Intelligence teams to build autonomous defense systems using multi-agent mission planning, semantic/geometric scene understanding, and data acquisition infrastructure.

Role type

Senior management (Director of Engineering)

Builds

Autonomous defense systems, multi-agent mission planning, scene understanding, data acquisition infrastructure

Domain

Defense / Autonomous Systems / AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

People management, recruitment, process standardization, engineering infrastructure strategy, organizational design, multi-agent systems, fleet orchestration, scene understanding, mission planning

Preferred skills

Prior IC experience transitioning to management, hands-on technical engagement

Technologies

Multi-agent systems, fleet orchestration, scene understanding, mission planning

Responsibilities

Manage and mentor engineering teams, lead recruitment, standardize work processes across ML and AI teams, audit and improve internal tooling, contribute to organizational structure, collaborate on company vision

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical background

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