Founding team building systems to counter drone attacks in Ukraine

Location: UK and Kyiv

Mission

Every month, drones injure and kill thousands of Ukrainians. Munin builds point-defense systems to stop them. Our first product is a hand-launched micro-missile designed to intercept small drones at close range. It is small enough to carry three in a vest and cheap enough for mass deployment. Our goal is to change the battlefield in Ukraine through very high-volume production, then deliver proven systems to NATO.

Role summary

We are hiring two Founding Engineers with backgrounds across mechanical engineering, computer vision, or firmware, and one Founding Head of Operations & Business.

You will start in the English countryside, living with our small team (now 6) next to our workshop and test site. After a few months, you will relocate to Kyiv to work directly with the Ukrainian military and scale production using front-line feedback. You will not operate near front-line areas, and you will work from Ukraine only while the security situation remains stable.

What you will do

Engineers

• Iterate on missiles and launchers, including actuation, human interfaces, safety systems, and warheads

• Build new systems from concept through production

• Test hardware aggressively

• Work closely with computer vision, electronics, controls and mechanical engineers

• Help scale the teams

Business

• Own all non-engineering work in the company along with CEO

• Run operations, suppliers, logistics, contracts, grants

• Support hiring, payroll, day-to-day admin, fundraising

• Work directly with engineers, military and business counterparts across Ukraine, UK and Norway

Requreiments

Engineers

• You’ve shipped physical systems under time pressure

Applies to all roles

• Significant hands-on experience building products or developing projects

• High personal drive and tolerance for long, intense work periods

• Comfortable owning ambiguous problems end-to-end without much supervision

Preferred

• Startup experience

• Military background

Credibility

We have contracts with two NATO countries. In four months, we went from concept to a robust missile prototype that is smaller and cheaper than anything comparable, can be fired with one hand, and reliably intercepts FPV drones.

Recent work includes

• Working with the Ukrainian armed forces to go from pre-idea to warhead design, production, and live-fire testing in 24 hours

• Car-mounted missile testing at 200 km/h

• Building an air cannon in two days, then destructively testing 50 missiles to diagnose a hardware issue

• Six launches in a single day, with design iterations between each launch

Team

Our team is from the Special Forces, Stanford, 1X, Imperial College, FLIR, student engineering teams and non-traditional paths. What we share is the ability to build real systems fast, take ownership and work toward a safer Europe.