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title: 'Senior Data Scientist at Swarmer'
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# Senior Data Scientist at Swarmer

- **Company:** Swarmer
- **Location:** Kyiv, Ukraine
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swarmer/168331f3-fe33-4e3c-b91a-383cf4ab8819

## Job description

Swarmer develops software that makes drones autonomous and allows them to operate together, in large, coordinated teams — no pilots needed. Our technology has been battle-tested in Ukraine— the world’s most intense proving ground for drone warfare.

In March 2026, we became the first Ukrainian defense startup to go public on NASDAQ, following a $15M Series A — the largest investment in a Ukrainian defense tech company since the start of the war.

Working at Swarmer means operating at the intersection of engineering rigor and frontline reality. The problems and environments are complex, and the stakes are very real. We built this software to enable democratic nations to defend themselves.

If you are motivated by building resilient systems that matter and by seeing the direct impact of your work, you’ll find purpose here.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a hands-on Data Scientist who can own and contribute to existing ML/CV pipelines in a robotics autonomy stack, and who can also own and grow the data side of the house — from collection and labeling through lakes/warehouses to training and evaluation. This is an IC-first role with real ownership: you write code, ship models and data products, and improve the loops that turn flight and simulation data into better autonomy.

We are not looking for a pure researcher, a detached platform architect, or someone who only does notebooks. We need someone who can work end-to-end across models, data, and robotics constraints, with strong judgment and delivery discipline.

What you’ll do:

- Own and contribute to existing ML/CV flows in our robotics autonomy and perception stack (LMT, ATR, VISNAV and related systems): training, evaluation, iteration, and integration with onboard/edge pipelines.
- Design, build, and operate data flows: ingestion from flights and sims, storage (data lakes / warehouses), labeling workflows, dataset versioning, and reproducible training/eval pipelines.
- Work extensively with simulated data: generate, validate, mix with real flight data, measure sim-to-real gaps, and improve dataset quality for perception and autonomy models.
- Improve model quality under field constraints: noisy sensors, limited compute, edge deployment (e.g. Jetson), and operational edge cases.
- Partner closely with robotics, autonomy, and product engineers to ship changes that show up in real missions — not only offline metrics.
- Build practical tooling and automation that speeds up the team: dataset curation, experiment tracking, evaluation harnesses, AI-assisted workflows.
- Make pragmatic technical choices: when to retrain, when to fix data, when physics/heuristics beat another model.

You’ll be a good fit if you have:

- Strong hands-on experience as a Data Scientist / ML Engineer working on computer vision, perception, or robotics-related ML.
- Proven ability to own both model work and data infrastructure (pipelines, lakes/warehouses, dataset management) — not only one side.
- Experience training and evaluating CV/ML models (detection, tracking, recognition, or similar) and integrating them into real systems.
- Comfort working with simulated data and hybrid real+sim datasets; awareness of domain gap and how to measure/reduce it.
- Solid Python and modern ML tooling (PyTorch/TF, experiment tracking, data/ETL basics); ability to write production-quality code, not only prototypes.
- Fundamentals in math and physics — comfortable reasoning about sensors, geometry, dynamics, and the physical world before defaulting to “let’s train a model.”
- Experience deploying or preparing models for edge / embedded platforms (e.g. Jetson, Qualcomm) is a strong plus; cloud-only experience is not enough by itself.
- Real power-user experience with AI engineering tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar) and willingness to use them daily.
- Upper-Intermediate English or higher.
- Ability to operate with high ownership in a fast-moving environment: ship, measure, iterate.

Would be an advantage:

- Depth in ATR, object recognition, tracking, or autonomous systems.
- Experience with robotics, drones, aerospace, or defense / OT environments.
- Hardware–software integration experience.
- Building or scaling data platforms for ML teams (lakes, warehouses, feature/dataset stores, labeling ops).
- Experience closing the loop from field logs → datasets → models → redeployed autonomy.

What you’ll get:

- A chance to shape core autonomy and perception systems at the heart of Ukraine’s defense tech ecosystem and its international expansion
- Direct impact in a high-stakes industry where security decisions carry real-world consequences
- Professional growth through cutting-edge defense technologies and exposure to international security best practices
- Competitive salary, benefits package (insurance, paid sick leaves, 20 paid days off per year)
- Benefits of the defense sector (reservation, etc.)

How’s the hiring process going:

✔️ Recruiter Screen → ✔️ Technical Interview → ✔️ Managerial Interview → ✔️ Final Interview with CEO →✔️ Background check → ✔️Offer

Ready to Apply?

## About Swarmer

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swarmer develops combat-driven, vendor-agnostic collaborative autonomy software that enables one operator to control hundreds of unmanned systems in real time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; has filed for Nasdaq IPO)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA (with operations in Ukraine, Poland, and Estonia)
- **Founded**: May 2023
- **Founders**: Serhii Kupriienko (Global CEO) and Alex Fink (President & US CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Defense technology / Autonomous systems
- **Target customers**: Military and defense organizations (B2G)
- **Mission or purpose**: To provide intelligent swarming software that allows large numbers of low-cost unmanned systems to operate collectively as one coherent, resilient force, keeping humans out of harm’s way.

## Products & Services
- **Swarmer Software Platform**: A modular, platform-agnostic software stack for autonomous navigation, real-time combat data fusion, AI-driven collaboration, and scalable autonomy. Features encrypted over-the-air updates. Deployed on over 100,000 real-world combat missions in Ukraine since April 2024.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company; filed for IPO but terms undisclosed)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $15 million (Series A, first for a Ukrainian startup) – [aviationweek.com](https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/swarmer-takes-15-million-series-first-ukrainian-startup)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not individually named in available sources; has signed MOUs with Powerus and contracts with SkyKnight.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - More than 100,000 combat missions flown by nearly 50 units under active EW/GPS-denied conditions.
  - Filed for Nasdaq IPO in 2025/2026.
  - Rapid headcount growth and active hiring across engineering, sales, operations, and product roles in multiple countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-world validation**: Software evolved on the battlefield in Ukraine, not in a lab – terabytes of proprietary combat data inform ML models.
- **Vendor-agnostic**: Operates at the intelligence layer, independent of any single hardware supplier or platform.
- **Resilience**: Designed for contested, degraded, GPS-denied environments with continuous over-the-air updates.
- **Scalability**: One operator can control hundreds of autonomous systems simultaneously.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform for multi-domain operations, expanding into new defense markets, and completing a public listing on Nasdaq. Continued investment in AI-driven autonomy and real-time coordination.
- **Direction for growth**: From frontline Ukrainian operations to a global defense technology company, with a focus on collaborative autonomy across air, land, sea, and space.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Combat-tested, mission-driven environment where software directly impacts human safety and national security. Emphasis on "Send drones. Keep humans."
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Roles available across EU, USA, Ukraine, and Estonia; some positions listed as "Remote Texas" and "Remote" – hybrid likely depending on location.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and autonomy software that is actively deployed in real-world combat. Rapid growth phase means significant impact and career advancement. Engineering leadership, product, and pilot roles available.
- **Current hiring areas**: Engineering Leadership (EU & USA), Sales & Marketing Leadership (EU & USA), Engineers & Pilots (Ukraine & EU), Operations (Ukraine & EU), Product Roles (EU & Ukraine). Talent pool open for future roles – [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swarmer)

## Sources
1. [getswarmer.com](https://getswarmer.com/) – Company homepage and capabilities
2. [getswarmer.com/about](https://getswarmer.com/about/) – Company history, leadership, mission
3. [investors.getswarmer.com](https://investors.getswarmer.com/) – Investor relations, news releases, IPO filing
4. [aviationweek.com](https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/swarmer-takes-15-million-series-first-ukrainian-startup) – Series A funding announcement
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/swarmer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/swarmer) – Job listings and hiring areas
6. [swarmer.peopleforce.io/careers](https://swarmer.peopleforce.io/careers) – Alternative careers page with talent pool

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