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Ask HN: Will there be software roles in the coming European defense sector?

11 points by apatheticonion ↗ HN
I'm guessing Europe will begin investing in defense capabilities. Any thoughts on if software roles will materialize and how one would even go about applying for them?

Would be cool to write Rust firmware for drone defense systems or something like that.

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nocobot
helsing is already hiring for roles like that
hnthrowaway0315
I'd imagine someone in EU is trying to push out its own version of Tiktok/Facebook/Twitter/etc as they are very important in national security (any software that can impact millions of people).

TBH I'm always puzzled why EU never managed to push out its own social media software. Maybe just because I don't know?

isbvhodnvemrwvn
There is no single large market in Europe, everything is fractured by language and different cultures in each country. Monetizing it is also difficult.
badpun
Until now, EU countries saw US as alligned with them, so saw no need to wall off US social media and start their own, with their own propaganda, like Russia and China did.
BjoernKW
Because the EU seems to think it can just regulate such things into existence.

I find it baffling that people seem to attribute miracle superpowers to an entity whose prime achievement these days is tethered caps.

Flundstrom2
There's definitely software roles in european Defence industries. The SAAB Gripen is basically a huge amounts of embedded systems strapped on a Mach 2 jet engine with wings.

Same goes for the SAAB Kockums submarines. Not to mention the radar systems.

But you would need to be a citizen to get security clearance.

thorin
Defence roles have always been quite prominent in the UK IT sector. I've been offered at least 3 roles in defence in the past but not accepted one yet. The first was following my masters in electronics and was related to radar design. The others have been related to managing sensitive data. At that time WFH would not have been acceptable, but since then I've known security cleared staff to be able to work from home on these kinds of systems. This would work better as military bases are often in the middle of no-where so not ideal to get to from most cities.

I guess I've put them at the bottom of my list previously due to moral reasons, although the problems are often interesting.