Seniority: Director-level / founding role
Industry tags: Defence & Space, Maritime, Software Development
Skills tags: Embedded Systems · Edge AI · Defence · Dual-Use · Naval Systems · Sensor Fusion
About Cetasol
Cetasol builds AI decision support for vessels. Our onboard platform runs lightweight models of vessel operations, engines and operator behaviour on an edge unit proven across commercial fleets worldwide. We are a 30-person team in Gothenburg, Sweden’s maritime capital.
We are forming a new unit inside Cetasol to bring that platform to dual-use operators.
The role
You are the technical leader of Cetasol Dual-Use from day one. You take an edge platform that already works at sea and make it defence-grade: GNSS-denied operation, hardened security, information separation, sovereign hosting, ruggedised deployment. You spend the first months embedded with our engineering team to learn the platform, then build the defence product and the team around it.
This is a senior role. You report to the CEO and work closely with the CTO on architecture, security and compliance.
What you will do
- Own technical direction for the unit: architecture, roadmap, delivery
- Harden the edge platform: secure boot, signed firmware, SBOM, hardware root of trust, EU/sovereign hosting
- Define and ship the first product with the use-case owner
- Drive export-control classification, security-protection requirements and component provenance
- Recruit and lead the unit’s engineers as it grows
- Contribute improvements back to Cetasol’s core platform during the embedded period
What you bring
- 10+ years in embedded or edge systems, including several years leading engineering teams
- Shipped hardware-software products into a regulated environment: defence, maritime, aerospace, automotive or similar
- Strong C++ or Rust, plus Python; Linux on embedded targets
- Sensor fusion, navigation or vessel/vehicle systems experience
- Comfortable in the room with a government or naval customer; you turn requirements into a product
- Fluent in both English and Swedish
- Background in defence, dual-use or security-critical systems: industry, research institute, procurement agency or armed forces
- Security clearance, or eligible for Swedish säkerhetsklass
What we offer
- Senior leadership role in a funded unit with a real customer
- A proven platform and an engineering team to learn it from
- Equity in Cetasol and a competitive salary
- Gothenburg base, hybrid possible; some travel to Karlskrona and Stockholm
- A company that has shipped to fleets on four continents and is now opening a second market
