I do not hold a security clearance. Should I still get in touch?

Yes. If an engagement requires personnel security screening, the client's requirements apply and are discussed with you before any work starts. The screening itself is carried out by the federal authorities and can take months.

Platform engineering is planned as hybrid work within Switzerland. Forward-deployed engineering and business development are planned as on-site work at the organisation an engagement is for; remote is not the model for those roles.

Do you hire non-citizens?

For research and shared-platform engineering, yes — Swiss residents with the right to work are welcome. Where a client's security rules restrict an engagement to Swiss citizens, those rules apply.

What is the interview process?

One conversation with the founder. One technical or operational deep-dive on a problem you have actually solved. One reference call. We do not ask trick questions.

Swiss-market pay for the role, discussed in the first conversation once a role opens.

Careers · 06 No roles open yet

We will hire people who work on site, and who earn trust.

Ithildin is founder-led, and no role is open yet. The engineering it is built for means significant time on site at the organisation an engagement is for — federal, defense, and critical-infrastructure settings. When engagements fund the first hires, the bar will be high: we will hire for the operations that protect Switzerland, not for breadth.

07 — Principles

Three commitments. We expect everyone who joins to share them.

01 — Mission

The work matters.

Ithildin is built for Switzerland's most consequential problems — defense, intelligence, critical infrastructure. The bar is set by what is at stake, not by what is convenient.

02 — Embed

We sit with the client.

Engineers who join will embed on site with the organisation an engagement is for — the federal, defence and critical-infrastructure operators Ithildin is built for.

03 — Swiss by design

Founder-owned. Swiss-operated.

An independent Swiss business, owned and run by its founder. No subcontracting outside Switzerland. No foreign parent.

08 — Planned roles

Three planned roles. None is open yet.

When a role opens, it is announced here with a start date. Until then, a short note of interest is welcome — your CV and one example of work you can describe in detail. The founder reads every note.

R-001 Forward Deployed Engineer Switzerland · On-site · Federal Security screening as required by the client Note of interest → R-002 Platform Engineer — Ontology Switzerland · Hybrid Security screening as required by the client Note of interest → R-003 Business Development — Federal Switzerland · On-site VBS / armasuisse network required Note of interest →

09 — Hiring questions

What to know before you write.

I do not hold a security clearance. Should I still get in touch?: Yes. If an engagement requires personnel security screening, the client's requirements apply and are discussed with you before any work starts. The screening itself is carried out by the federal authorities and can take months.
Can I work remotely?: Platform engineering is planned as hybrid work within Switzerland. Forward-deployed engineering and business development are planned as on-site work at the organisation an engagement is for; remote is not the model for those roles.
Do you hire non-citizens?: For research and shared-platform engineering, yes — Swiss residents with the right to work are welcome. Where a client's security rules restrict an engagement to Swiss citizens, those rules apply.
What is the interview process?: One conversation with the founder. One technical or operational deep-dive on a problem you have actually solved. One reference call. We do not ask trick questions.
Compensation?: Swiss-market pay for the role, discussed in the first conversation once a role opens.

If the work matters to you, write to us directly.

careers@ithildin.ch · brief note, CV, one example of work.

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