At Perseus Defense we're building 16" missiles. Our missiles are special because they shoot down drones, and they do so at 1% the cost of America's best existing solutions. This is the fastest growing Aerospace and Defense startup in the country and we're targeting a greater than billion-dollar valuation by 2027. Our missiles already launch without lock, acquire targets mid-flight, and then self-guide for a kinetic hit to kill to neutralize enemy drones and protect our troops. Our task is extremely challenging: to build the most advanced 16" missile at a cost and scale that the world has never seen before. We're Perseus Defense. Join us in building America's Golden Dome for Drones. This is a full-time on-site role for an Engineer at Perseus Defense. The position is located in Austin, TX. Available positions are in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Hardware Engineering, Computer Vision, Electrical Engineering, and Software Engineering. You will be working with some of the smartest and most driven individuals you've ever met. The work will be extremely challenging and will push you to grow and to learn. It will be one of the most intellectually demanding yet fun career opportunities of your life. The salary is extremely competitive with full-time engineering salaries from private industry, and company equity is also available. You'll be given as much responsibility as you can handle, placing your future career trajectory squarely in your hands.

Perseus Defense is building a mass-manufactured Counter UAS solution for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Current solutions are one-to-one, too dangerous for use on U.S. soil, and orders of magntiude more expensive than the threats they defeat. Our self-guided missile platform is man-portable and multi-domain capable. It senses, engages, and eliminates threats with drastically reduced cost per engagement over existing kinetic solutions.

Solving this critical national security problem requires understanding complex DoD needs along with actual rocket science including aerodynamics, guidance, navigation, control, and much more. Jason and Steve met at Penn State while they pursued their PhD and MS in aerospace engineering, respectively. Their past experiences designing space helicopters for NASA, making Boeing airliners land autonomously, controlling swarms of unmanned autonomous systems, teaching aerospace engineering at Stanford, winning multiple ONR and DOE engineering competitions, and founding an international drone competition makes them the perfect team to create transformative solutions protecting our service members.

"If you build this, it will be mandatory equipment for every truck, boat, and convoy in the U.S. Military. We're talking thousands of units." - Former DoD Procurement Officer

The White House just released Executive Order, "Unleashing American Drone Dominance" which adds billions of dollars, government support, and streamlined regulations to enable the development of our product.

Traction: Jason and Steve used more than 100 end-user interviews across the DoD and DHS to shape the product to something of critical need to both boots on the ground and DoD purchasers. In 8 short weeks following a strict 2-week design-build-test cycle, the team has gone through 4 major guided missile iterations with over 30 live-fire flight tests. They were invited to Ft. Hood to present their platform to the 1st Cavalry Division, and also briefed the Pentagon and U.S. congressmen on current U.S. vulnerabilities to advanced drone technology. Perseus Defense is actively standing up cooperative research agreements with U.S. Army DEVCOM's Applied Research Laboratory, Aviation and Missile Center, Armaments Center, and High Performance Computing Modernization Program.

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