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About the Role

Lead multiple engineering disciplines from software, firmware, controls, hardware integration, and test to drive the transition from R&D to production. This role is responsible for turning a demonstrator into a weapon system, setting technical direction, and running the organization that executes it.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction across software, firmware, controls, hardware integration, and test for the full system.
• Manage the R&D to production transition and authority architecture, taking subsystems from prototype through field-ready and manufacturable.
• Ensure multi-team execution under ambiguous requirements, charting clear guidance and seeing projects through delivery.
• Lead field testing, from test article design through scoring system performance in non-lab conditions.
• Build and scale the engineering organization, including hiring, structure, and growing high-performing teams.
• Serve as the customer and program interface, translating mission requirements into engineering execution.
• Set the technical bar across the team through personal work ethic and example.

Requirements

• 12+ years in engineering with significant leadership of multi-disciplinary technical teams.
• Track record of taking complex hardware/software systems from R&D through production or field deployment.
• Experience leading across disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to scale teams and turn dysfunction or ambiguity into high-performing execution.
• Comfort operating hands-on in a lab and on a test range.
• Must be a "U.S. Person" (U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or certain protected classes of asylees and refugees).

Skills

• Software engineering
• Firmware engineering
• Controls engineering
• Hardware integration
• Test engineering
• Team leadership
• Scaling organizations
• Customer interface
• Program management
• Directed energy systems
• High energy laser weapon systems
• DoD security clearance (active or recent)
• Hiring and growing senior technical talent
• Standing up engineering processes and tooling

Location

• San Francisco
• Detroit

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Director level
• 12+ years in engineering

Education Level

• Advanced degree in a relevant engineering or physical science field is a plus, but track record beats credentials.
• No specific degree required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity
• United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 18 days PTO + 5 sick days
• Travel to field test events and range days
• Covered daily lunches and office snacks + drinks
• E-bike / scooter stipend (Up to $500)
• Direct access to leadership
• Real ownership over your work

About the Company

• Aurelius Systems is a VC backed defense tech startup building autonomous, edge deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS.
• We build laser weapons to shoot down drones.
• We are a small team of engineers, former US military operators, and subject matter experts scaling America's directed energy dominance.
• We aim to be the first cost effective, reliable and robust laser weapon system.
• We operate with an extreme bias for action, solving problems directly and efficiently.
• We have a San Francisco lab, a Detroit manufacturing hub, and field test weekly on our own 400-acre private range.