Telekinetik

Forward Deployed Engineering for systems that have to work in the field.

We build, integrate, and field the systems that have to work in the real world: the connectivity, sensing, and computation that has to survive it, built on field-earned experience. From a single module to a full platform, across maritime and subsea, energy and grid, land mobility and off-highway, aerospace and space, environment and science, and defense.

What we do

We Build, Integrate, Solve, and Advise on the connectivity, sensing, and computation in field-deployed systems: the parts that fail in ways a lab cannot reproduce.

Build. Implement, from a single piece to a whole platform: a firmware feature, board bring-up, a security retrofit, a firmware subsystem, or the data and application layer on top, the acquisition, processing, and visualization-and-control software that turns what a system senses in the field into something an operator can act on. Sometimes the whole stack, sensor to screen. Owned modules or work-for-hire depending on what the engagement calls for.

Integrate. Go to the field and integrate a component, instrument, or module into the operational system. Commission it, validate it, prove it works where it runs. The most field-bound work we do. Can be our piece or a third party's.

Solve. Deep-debug and escalation: the field failure that only shows up out there, that the client's own team cannot close. We find the root cause and fix it. We go on site when the telemetry is not enough.

Advise. Embed a senior expert, consult on architecture, advise on a technical due-diligence. Field-earned depth, distinct from a desk-audit.

Where we go deep

The problems we work on are the ones that only fully show up in the field: a link that drops where the propagation is hard, a sensor that drifts in the real thermal and vibration environment, timing that breaks under real bus load, power and connectivity that pull against each other on a real duty cycle. A lab cannot fully reproduce those conditions, so the truth is in the field. That is the work we are built for, and it is where a desk-only developer gets surprised.

Our depth runs on two axes.

The embedded system itself. Today that is concentrated in connectivity at the edge (RF and wireless in real propagation, DDIL control-channels, real-time control over field buses like CAN, CAN-FD, TSN), sensing at the edge (fusion under real dynamics and noise, signal integrity and in-situ calibration, acoustic and sonar processing, GNSS-denied and degraded navigation), and the physical cross-couplings that catch all of them (power and thermal, EMC and EMI, vibration and shock, field security for unattended systems). That is where our depth sits today, not the limit of the work we take on.

Reading what the real world produces. Interpreting the data the system collects, correlating it, visualizing it, acting on it. This is what makes it possible to build the application that deals with the environment, not only the firmware beneath it. A field deliverable is often a full stack: sensor configuration, data handling, and deployment, with little firmware in it at all. That work is first-class here.

The proof base

The experience behind this firm: DDIL control-channel and intermittent-connectivity discipline from regulated transport telematics with integrated tachograph, running across borders on mobile coverage that drops and recovers. Real-time control over CAN from an automotive gateway program built under ISO 26262 and ASPICE. Field security and tamper-resistance from the same tachograph work, including CMP (RFC 4210) in production, secure boot chain, and PKI. Field-deployed unattended data acquisition from an autonomous EEG diagnostic device built to IEC 62304 Class B. Reefer and refrigerated-transport control-channel work, where field-debug discipline matters because the device is in motion when something fails.

Twelve years of embedded systems engineering. Rust, C++, C, Python. Linux, Zephyr, FreeRTOS. Warsaw-based, with global field dispatch.

Where the work recurs

The same field problem shows up across very different industries: maritime and subsea, energy and grid, land mobility and off-highway, aerospace and space, environmental and scientific monitoring, and defense and security. Those are examples. The list is open.

If your sector is not among them, that is not a no. What decides whether we can help is the problem itself: is the hard part something only the field reveals? Describe it and we will tell you whether it fits.

A regulatory tailwind worth noting

The EU Cyber Resilience Act reaches full applicability in December 2027. Every connected product sold in the EU market is in scope, regardless of where it was built. The embedded security work the regulation requires (hardware root of trust, secure boot, encrypted OTA, SBOM discipline, PKI infrastructure) is work already proven in production behind this firm. If your fielded product line is approaching this deadline, the engineering build time is now.

Get in touch

contact@telekinetik.eu +48 573 111 388

Describe the problem. We will tell you whether we can help.

Services

Forward Deployed Engineering: Build, Integrate, Solve, Advise.

We engage through four verbs, with two dimensions that apply to all of them.

Duration. Short get-in/get-out (a feature, a PoC, a dashboard or visualization, a board bring-up, a security retrofit) through to a long-running engagement (a maintained subsystem, application, or platform with a field-life retainer).

Relationship. Most engagements are work-for-hire, and that is the normal place to start. What we look for past the first job is a continuing relationship: staying responsible for a module across its field life, so the people who built it are the people who keep it running and our knowledge of your system deepens.

The commercial form follows the certainty of each phase. Desk and development work (building the module) is scoped as a fixed work-package. Field-discovery work (commissioning, hard integration, field-debug) is time-and-materials with defined acceptance criteria or a milestone, because the truth in these problems is in the field and cannot be fully characterized from a lab. Field-life support (ongoing maintenance of a deployed module) runs as a retainer. Entry-wedge engagements, where getting inside the system is the objective, run as senior staff-augmentation with explicit conversion intent.

A single engagement can span all of these: fixed-price the build, T&M the commissioning, retain the field life.

Build

Implement, from the short end to the long end.

At the short end: a specific firmware feature, a PoC to prove an approach before committing a full team, a board bring-up on new silicon, a security retrofit to an existing fielded product, a data-acquisition or signal-processing module, an operator dashboard or control application for a deployed system.

At the long end: a full firmware subsystem, an owned middleware layer, the full field-data stack (acquisition through processing, storage, and the visualization-and-control application), or a whole platform when the differentiating piece is ours.

What we build on, embedded: Linux (Yocto, Buildroot, OpenWrt, Ubuntu Core, AOSP), Zephyr, FreeRTOS. Rust, modern C++, C, Python. Kernel modules and drivers, BSP development and maintenance, OTA infrastructure (A/B-partition, Ubuntu Core Brand Store), TCP/IP stack extension, eBPF and XDP, CAN/CAN-FD protocol handling, PKI and CMP (RFC 4210), secure boot chains, firmware hardening to a deny-all baseline.

What we build on, data and applications: the full path from sensor to screen. Acquisition and signal processing (modern C++, Python), telemetry and dashboards (Grafana, ThingsBoard), and operator-control and visualization applications including real-time interactive 3D (Qt across embedded and desktop, Unity), with the web and cloud layer behind them (React, Node.js, AWS). Plus COTS hardware and sensor integration and configuration, deployed and running in the field.

Security retrofit is the standout short-Build entry. IEC 62443 on a legacy fielded product, hardware root of trust, secure boot, network isolation, encrypted OTA update delivery. Regulation-pulled demand (CRA December 2027 applicability, NIS2, IEC 62443), sits on held competency, and provable in the lab without a field deployment. A practical first engagement.

Held proof: DDIL control-channel and intermittent-connectivity firmware (regulated transport telematics with integrated tachograph). Real-time control over CAN (automotive gateway, ISO 26262 and ASPICE). CMP (RFC 4210) in production, secure boot chain, PKI. Unattended field acquisition (IEC 62304 Class B autonomous EEG device).

Integrate

Understand the problem, then go to the field and integrate the component or module into the operational system. Commission it. Validate it. Prove it works where it runs.

Integration is the most field-bound work we do. A system can be technically correct in isolation and still fail when it meets its real environment: the RF propagation profile of the actual installation, the thermal and vibration profile of the vehicle or vessel, the timing behavior on the real bus under real load.

We can integrate our own piece or a third party's. The value is being there with the system-level understanding to close the gap between bench behavior and field behavior, and to own the problem until it is closed.

Integration is scoped into the contract and priced at the field rate. We do not treat field presence as an optional extra.

Solve

The field failure that only shows up out there. The problem your own team cannot close. The integration deadlock where two subsystems work individually and fail together. The hard bug that does not reproduce on the bench.

We find the root cause and fix it. A short triage can come first to scope the work before committing to the full engagement.

Where the problem requires on-site presence, we go. Where telemetry is sufficient to diagnose remotely, we work remotely. We are not interested in producing a report that hands the root cause back to your team; we own the fix.

What makes escalation tractable for us: field-earned experience with the failure modes of field-deployed systems (connectivity dropouts, thermal threshold events, timing contention under real bus load, sensor reading drift against real references). The problems we are called in for are the ones that require someone who has seen the failure in the field, not only in the lab.

Advise

Embed a senior expert in your team, consult on architecture, or advise on a technical due-diligence.

This is field-earned advisory: drawn from real implementation and field-deployment depth. It is appropriate for teams that need the deep answer quickly, who are making an architecture decision with long consequences, or who are evaluating a technical asset and need someone who has built in this domain.

Senior staff-augmentation is the entry form of Advise: a senior engineer inside your team, working across modules, learning the system. We run this with explicit conversion intent: toward an owned module, a retained subsystem, or a longer build engagement.

Scoping and requirements consulting (turning a product concept into concrete, testable requirements before the build) sits inside Advise. It runs as Phase 0 of a contracted Build engagement, not as a standalone deliverable.

Field engineering is the differentiator

The engagement model above is built around a deliberate capability: we go to the field.

Warsaw is the base for build, bench work, and pre-validation. Hardware-in-the-loop test rigs, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, CAN bus simulators, and field simulation equipment let us catch the controllable failures before anyone travels. What the bench cannot replicate is the real environment: the actual RF propagation, the real thermal profile, the actual vibration and shock envelope.

Field work is scoped and priced into engagements as first-class work. Field day rate is 150% of the desk rate, location-independent. Travel time is billed separately. Expenses pass through at cost. Hardship or remoteness uplift applies for extreme environments (offshore roughly 25%, polar or hazardous roughly 50%). Mobilization minimum applies.

For US and global engagements, devices ship to Warsaw for the bench phase. We travel for the phases that require presence.

Get in touch

contact@telekinetik.eu +48 573 111 388

Describe the problem. We will tell you whether we can help.

About Telekinetik

Paweł Bednarski, founder

The through-line

The through-line in my engineering career is systems that operate in places where an engineer cannot simply show up when something goes wrong.

An automotive gateway built under ISO 26262 and ASPICE: a system that lives in-vehicle, survives the under-bonnet thermal and vibration environment, handles OTA updates that propagate across the CAN bus to every ECU, and cannot afford an architectural mistake discovered two years after the platform decision was made. The kind of system a field technician sees maybe once over the vehicle's lifetime, if something goes badly wrong.

Regulated international transport telematics with an integrated tachograph: a device that crosses borders, operates under EU driver-hours law, has to be tamper-resistant from the outside and field-serviceable from within, and must maintain its control channel through intermittent mobile-network coverage across multiple countries. The full operational profile of a field device, in production, on the road.

Reefer and refrigerated-transport control-channel work: mobile edge nodes controlling refrigeration equipment in transit, with telemetry over unreliable backhaul. The class of problem where field-debug discipline matters because the device is in motion when something fails and a service truck is not an option.

An autonomous EEG diagnostic device, designed for unattended field deployment: the device acquires data, runs IEC 62304 Class B software, and has to do its job correctly even when no one is in the room to notice a misbehaving sensor or a crashed daemon.

Those four programs, plus background in telecom infrastructure, German automotive OEM and Tier 1 work, medical imaging, and consumer electronics, converged on a specialization I can now describe precisely: the connectivity, sensing, and computation that has to survive the real world in field-deployed systems. These are the problems that only fully show up where the system meets its real environment, the ones a lab cannot fully reproduce.

I started Telekinetik to work on this class of problem directly, across maritime and subsea, energy and grid, land mobility and off-highway, aerospace and space, environment and science, and defense.

The firm

A small, senior, field-willing firm. We own the work and go to where the system runs. Warsaw-based, working across Europe and dispatching globally for field work.

Where we are

Telekinetik sp. z o. o. Registered office: Al. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej 36/112B, 02-797 Warszawa, Poland KRS 0001229482 NIP 9512644366

Get in touch

contact@telekinetik.eu +48 573 111 388