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Lead, AI Hardware Design Skunkworks

ICEYE·Valencia·Posted 11 November 2026

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ROLE HIGHLIGHTS - Location: Valencia (Paterna), Spain - Department: [confirm department/LoB] - Reports to: VP Engineering, ICEYE Spain - Employment type: Permanent - Workplace model: Onsite, in the room with the team - SUPO: Employment is subject to applicable security screening. Parts of this work fall under export control. WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS ICEYE builds radar satellites, and nobody yet knows where AI turns a week of hardware design into an afternoon. The vendors who claim to know are mostly wrong. So we're setting up a five-person skunkworks in Valencia to find out, by building real hardware with AI - outside of the program schedules with a pure focus on finding the things that “move the needle”. You'll hire the team of four or five builders and build alongside them. "Lead" here means first builder. You get a room next to the lab and a budget you spend without an approval process, and the team keeps two standing obligations: build something every week and show it to the rest of ICEYE every month. WHO WE ARE ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in…

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