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Swarmer

Head of AI

Swarmer

Hands-on AI leader managing a team to build software solutions for drone autonomy and perception. Overseeing workflows, prioritization, and AI technical choices in a defense-tech environment.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeKyiv • 🇺🇦 UkraineLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the AI roadmap and execution rhythm across Swarmer’s autonomy, perception, and data stack (LMT, ATR, VISNAV).
  • Consolidate AI/ML efforts into one coherent roadmap with clear owners, priorities, and delivery accountability.
  • Align AI initiatives with product roadmap, combat-ops priorities, and field constraints.
  • Build strong operating processes for planning, prioritization, ownership, quality, metrics, and quarterly delivery.
  • Prioritize ruthlessly: say no, defend focus, surface conflicts, and stop work that should not continue.
  • Architect and integrate the data function into the broader AI organization.
  • Improve team speed through tooling, automation, AI-assisted workflows, and hands-on contribution where needed.
  • Make high-level technical decisions and supervise the architectural choices of senior leads (CV, robotics, autonomy, integration)

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years in a managerial role leading technical teams.
  • Proven experience leading AI/ML, computer vision, perception, or autonomy teams.
  • Strong people management skills: hiring, team structure, accountability, performance management, and leadership of senior ICs.
  • Hands-on technical background in AI/ML, computer vision, robotics, autonomy, or related fields.
  • Ability to supervise technical decisions and challenge senior engineers without needing to act as the CTO.
  • Strong execution discipline, speed over perfectionism, and comfort being judged on shipped outcomes.
  • Real power-user experience with AI engineering tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar and the conviction that the entire engineering team should be using them daily.
  • Solid fundamentals in math and physics — comfortable reasoning about the physical world (wind, ballistics, sensor behavior, drone dynamics) before defaulting to "let's train a model." Candidates who only know ML as an applied toolkit without underlying intuition are not a fit.
  • Experience deploying models at the edge / on embedded platforms (e.g., Jetson, Qualcomm) — not only in the cloud.
  • Upper-Intermediate level of English or higher.
  • Would be an advantage: Experience with ATR, object recognition, perception systems, or autonomous systems at depth.
  • Experience with embedded AI, edge deployment, or resource-constrained environments.
  • Hardware-software integration experience.
  • Defense, aerospace, drones, robotics, or operational technology experience.
  • Experience rebuilding or scaling a data team and working directly with founders or CEOs.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salary
  • Benefits package (insurance, paid sick leaves, 20 paid days off per year)
  • Benefits of the defense sector (reservation, etc)

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Hard Skills & Tools
AIMLcomputer visionperceptionautonomyroboticsdata integrationmodel deploymenthardware-software integrationmath
Soft Skills
people managementleadershipaccountabilityperformance managementexecution disciplineprioritizationconflict resolutionteam structurecommunicationdecision making