aureliussystems · San Francisco
WHO WE ARE Aurelius is the autonomous directed energy company. We are a group of engineers, operators, and company patriots building American-made, laser-based, counter-UAS defense systems that neutralize aerial threats. We're a small team that designs in San Francisco, manufactures in Detroit, and field tests Archimedes, our fiber-laser counter-UAS system, weekly on our own 400-acre private range. ABOUT THE TEAM You'll own hardware architecture across Archimedes and take subsystems from working prototype to hardware that ships and survives in the field. This is a senior IC seat, not a people-manager job. You've done the full cycle more than once, you know where systems break and where teams get stuck, and you still like doing the hardest part yourself. Weekly range time and a Detroit manufacturing hub mean your decisions show up in metal, not just in a review deck. As a Principal Hardware Engineer you will set the system-level hardware architecture, close the hardest design and manufacturing trades, and stand up the release path with Detroit. You'll work daily with electrical, power, embedded, optics, and manufacturing, and stay close enough to the bench and the floor to catch what the model misses. MUST-HAVES - Track record taking complex hardware the full cycle from prototype through manufacturing and field deployment, more than once - Deep mechanical expertise plus real judgment in at least one of electrical, power electronics, or embedded - Comfort being the technical anchor on a small team, still hands-on, not the manager of a large org - Evidence of systems that had to survive real-world shock, vibration, and environmental conditions - U.S. citizenship (required for export control). WHAT YOU'LL OWN Priority deliverables in the first 6 months: - A system-level hardware architecture and integration plan across mechanical, electrical, power, embedded, and optics - The hardest open design trades closed, with documented decisions on cost, mass, reliability, and fi…
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