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Amir Frenkel

A generative-AI engineering leader at Meta and a director of Swarmer.

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Amir Frenkel is a large-scale AI and consumer-hardware engineering leader. He is a vice-president of generative AI at Meta, and has previously held senior engineering roles at Google — including on the Google Glass program — as well as at Amazon, Texas Instruments, and Palm. He holds a computer-engineering degree from the Technion in Israel. In 2026 he joined the board of the Ukrainian drone-swarm company Swarmer as a director.

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Frenkel’s presence on Swarmer’s board brings genuine big-tech AI-engineering credibility to a company whose entire pitch rests on autonomy software, and is a marker of how mainstream AI-industry talent is being drawn into defence ventures.

Amir Frenkel is a large-scale AI and consumer-hardware engineering leader who sits on the board of Swarmer. By day he is a vice-president of generative AI at Meta, and earlier in his career he held senior engineering roles at Google — including on the Google Glass program — as well as at Amazon, Texas Instruments, and Palm. He trained as a computer engineer at the Technion in Israel.

His arrival as a Swarmer director in 2026 matters less for any single decision than for what it signals: a company whose whole proposition is autonomy software has put a working big-tech AI-engineering leader on its board, an example of how mainstream artificial-intelligence talent is increasingly being drawn into the defence sector.

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