Field Operations Engineer

FIELD OPERATIONS ENGINEER Sydney (Eveleigh) · Early career · Regular field travel, occasional international TL;DR - Be the person who turns a software release into autonomous robots flying real missions - integrate the hardware, provision the platforms, then take them into the field - Own new hardware bring-up end-to-end: new airframes, radios, datalinks, and companion computers - flashing, configuring, tuning, and debugging until they work - Run field testing campaigns end-to-end: planning, provisioning, flying, data capture, and the post-test debrief - Hardware-first, but you live at the seam where software meets the airframe — ArduPilot parameters, Linux, flashing edge compute, and enough scripting to make your own life easier - Clear path into a forward-deployed engineering role, supporting integrations and customers across Australia and the US - Roughly one week a month in the field, with international travel for demos and deployments - Australian citizenship required. A Remote Pilot Licence is a bonus - if you don't have one, we'll help you get it ABOUT BREAKER The way humans use robots is broken. Modern problems demand more robots than we have operators. Every drone, ground vehicle, and maritime system requires dedicated training, manual control, and constant oversight. One operator per robot. One pilot per mission. Breaker's AI agent breaks this constraint. Our technology turns any robot into a truly autonomous, self-organizing teammate. Operators command and query teams of robots through natural language conversations over the push-to-talk radios they already carry - no laptops, no controllers, no additional gear. Instead of manually flying search patterns across three different screens, you say, "survey this area and flag anything unusual." The robot team figures out how to divide the task, coordinate their movements, and report back what matters. We're fundamentally changing the operator-to-robot ratio. Small teams become force multipliers. Our software deploys directly onboard each robot, enabling real-time, intent-driven control even in contested environments with limited bandwidth. We're solving problems most AI companies never touch: sub-second inference on edge hardware with strict latency, power, and connectivity constraints. We're backed by some of the best investors globally and growing our team across Austin, Texas, and Sydney, Australia. We're a small team of experienced engineers moving fast on technology that will define how humans and machines work together for decades to come. Join us if you want to help build the robots we were promised 🤖 ABOUT THE ROLE Breaker's software is only as good as the robots it runs on — and getting those robots integrated, configured, and flying reliably is its own hard problem. This role owns that problem. We've gone from one platform to five in a short space of time, with a growing collection of radios, datalinks, and edge compute to go with them. Every one of those needs someone to bring it online: pull the new release onto the airframe, reflash the companion computer, get the radio link stable, tune the platform until it flies the way it should, and then prove it in the field. That is the core of this job. You'll be hands-on with the hardware, and you'll be in the terminal — reading logs, setting parameters, flashing images, and diagnosing whether the problem is the airframe, the link, or the software. You don't need to be a software engineer, and you won't be writing production code or working in our autonomy stack. But you do need to be genuinely comfortable around software, because integration work is where most of your time will go. On top of that, you'll own how we test: running simulation before we commit to a field day, planning and executing test campaigns, capturing clean data, triaging what comes back, and packaging bug reports the software team can actually act on. You'll keep the workshop and hardware registry in a state where any deployment can leave on s…