Field Operations Engineer

About this role

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 short notice.

The natural progression from here is forward-deployed engineering: travelling to support integrations, demos, and customers directly, in Australia and internationally. If that's the career you want, this is the fastest route to it we can offer.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Hardware and software integration

- Bring new platforms, radios, datalinks, payloads, and companion computers online — flash software releases, configure and tune, and debug until the whole chain works

- Diagnose issues across the hardware/software boundary: RF and link problems, sensor and comms configuration, flight parameter tuning, edge compute setup

- Work directly with the software team on integration blockers, and support new platform integrations alongside our mechatronics engineers

Field testing

- Plan and run field testing campaigns end-to-end: prepare the gear, execute the test plan, capture clean data, and run the post-test debrief

- Run simulation (software-in-the-loop) testing on a regular cadence - new releases and new CONOPs - to surface issues before they reach the field

- Offload and analyse field data, triage issues, and turn them into clear, reproducible bug reports

Operational ownership

- Own the hardware registry and inventory, keeping the Sydney workshop organised and deployment-ready (and supporting the Austin team as needed)

- Support demos and deployments in Australia and internationally with on-site hardware, comms, and configuration support

- Build and maintain SOPs, operator manuals, test tooling, and field documentation

ABOUT YOU

You're early in your career, or a few years into it - this is not a senior role, and we care more about attitude, drive, and hands-on ability than years on a CV. Outstanding recent graduates are encouraged to apply, especially those who've cut their teeth on serious, competitive engineering projects.

We're looking for someone who has actually built things…