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About the Role

We need a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead demonstrations, field tests, and field integration on Archimedes. You're a generalist engineer who can work across mechanical, electrical, and software when the system is in front of a customer or downrange. You'll set it up, you'll fix it when it breaks, and you'll be the credible technical face of Aurelius when an operator is standing next to you. Between deployments you're back at the lab testing, breaking things on purpose, and bringing what you learned in the field back into the build.

Responsibilities

System setup, integration, and operation at demonstrations, field tests, and customer sites
Field troubleshooting and repair across mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems
Pre-deployment system checkout and packing, post-deployment teardown and debrief
Real-time integration work on novel hardware and software in non-lab conditions
Customer-facing technical interaction during demos, tests, and pilots
Capturing field observations, failure modes, and operator feedback and feeding them back to engineering
In-lab testing, characterization, and rig work between deployments

Requirements

3 to 8+ years of hands-on engineering or technician experience on real hardware, ideally on systems that left the lab
Generalist depth across at least two of: mechanical, electrical, embedded software, integration
Hands-on troubleshooting skills with scope, multimeter, basic shop tools, and command line
Comfortable presenting and operating in front of customers, including military operators
Travel-ready and physically able to support field deployments including range conditions and equipment handling
You've stood next to a piece of hardware in front of a customer when something failed and brought it back online.
You're comfortable being the only engineer on site.
You don't lose your composure when the system does.
Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or certain protected classes of asylees and refugees).

Skills

Mechanical
Electrical
Embedded Software
Integration
Troubleshooting
Customer Presentation
Field Integration
ROS2
Welding
Machining
Fabrication

Location

San Francisco
Detroit

Work Type

Full-time
Onsite

Experience Level

Mid-level
Senior

Education Level

AA
BS
MS
PhD
Trade school
Military training

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary + equity

Benefits

United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible 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 and 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're a small team of engineers, former US military operators, and subject matter experts scaling America's directed energy dominance.
The first cost effective, reliable and robust laser weapon system.
Marcus Aurelius wrote about doing the work in front of you, every day, without excuses. Henry Ford didn't wait for permission to reinvent manufacturing. That's how we operate — small team, unreasonable output, no hiding behind the unachievable.
In addition to our San Francisco lab, we’ve opened a Detroit manufacturing hub and we field test weekly on our own 400-acre private range.

Equal Opportunity

This role requires access to export-controlled information or items that require "U.S. Person" status. As defined by U.S. law, individuals who are any one of the following are considered to be a "U.S. Person": (1) U.S. citizens, (2) legal permanent residents (a.k.a. green card holders), and (3) certain protected classes of asylees and refugees, as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).