About the role
Who We Are: 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. Our namesake isn't an accident. 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.
The Role and Your Impact: We need an Engineering Director to own the path from R&D to production across the whole system. You'll lead multiple engineering disciplines from software, firmware, controls, hardware integration, test, and drive the hard handoff from a thing that works in the lab to a thing that survives downrange and gets built at volume. This is the person who turns a demonstrator into a weapon system. You'll set technical direction, and run the org that executes it.
What You'll Own: Technical direction across software, firmware, controls, hardware integration, and test for the full system The R&D to production transition and authority architecture taking subsystems from prototype through field-ready and manufacturable Multi-team execution under ambiguous
requirements, charting clear guidance and seeing projects through delivery Field testing leadership, from test article design through scoring system performance in non-lab conditions Building and scaling the engineering org from hiring, structure, and growing high-performing teams from the ground up Customer and program interface, translating mission
requirements into engineering execution The technical bar across
