About the Role
9 Mothers builds robotic weapons systems. This role owns hands-on electronics fabrication, including building cables and harnesses, wiring enclosures, and reworking PCBAs. Your work directly impacts weapons systems used in the field.
Responsibilities
- Build cables and wire harnesses from schematics, harness drawings, or engineer's sketches.
- Work across various connector families common to robotic and vehicle systems.
- Label, sleeve, and strain-relieve harnesses for hard use on outdoor, live-fire robotic platforms.
- Verify every build for continuity and pinout, capturing as-builts and redlining drawings.
- Wire compute and control enclosures end-to-end, including panel layout, component mounting, power distribution, and wire routing.
- Perform point-to-point checkout and initial power-up checks for enclosures.
- Build repeatably, ensuring consistency between units.
- Rework and repair PCBAs, including component replacement and modifications.
- Troubleshoot boards and assemblies to the failed component using standard test equipment.
- Build and run simple electrical test setups.
- Instrument tests, log results, and report failures.
- Maintain the electronics lab, including test equipment, soldering stations, and stock.
- Travel to test ranges to repair harnesses, boxes, and electronics on deployed systems.
- Work safely around firearms and an active belt-fed shotgun platform, adhering to range safety protocols.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as an electronics technician, electrical assembler, or similar role.
- Expert-level cable and harness fabrication skills.
- Proficient soldering and rework skills, including SMT component replacement.
- Ability to read and work from schematics, wiring diagrams, and harness drawings.
- Competent with standard bench equipment: DMM, oscilloscope, power supplies.
- Meticulous workmanship and documentation habits.
- Comfortable working around firearms and live-fire operations.
- Willing to travel occasionally to test ranges in central Texas.
- US person (citizen or lawful permanent resident) for ITAR compliance.
Skills
- Cable and harness fabrication
- Soldering
- SMT component replacement
- Reading schematics and wiring diagrams
- DMM
- Oscilloscope
- Power supplies
- Workmanship documentation
- Working around firearms
- IPC/WHMA-A-620 certification (preferred)
- IPC-A-610 certification (preferred)
- J-STD-001 certification (preferred)
- Military electronics maintenance background (preferred)
- Test fixture design and fabrication (preferred)
- Robotic systems wiring (preferred)
- Data logging (preferred)
- Basic scripting (e.g., Python) (preferred)
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Onsite
- Direct Hire
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Benefits
- Meaningful Early Equity
- Direct Roadmap Influence
- Mission-Critical Work
- Brand-new lab fully optimized for rapid prototyping
- 100% Employer-Paid Premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 50% employer contribution for dependent healthcare premiums
- Unlimited PTO
- Zero Red Tape / Autonomy
- Relocation Assistance
About the Company
- 9 Mothers develops AI-powered machines designed to intercept and neutralize Group 1/sUAS threats in real-time.
- Backed by top-tier investors.
- Builds for immediate survival of those in harm’s way.
- Team of hackers, engineers, and mission-driven builders.
- Values field-ready capability over polished slide decks.
- Builds robotic weapons systems, including EDDA, a robotic shotgun turret for counter-UAS, and a proprietary belt-fed shotgun platform.
