141 Defense Tech Jobs 🚀
Jobs at Apptronik, Castelion, Genlogs, Noda AI, Veilant, and more!
Good morning,
Drones (and counter drones) are the name of the game this week!
Europe on the board! Cambridge Aerospace raised $300M Series C at a $3.4B post-money this week, led by DFJ Growth with Lux, Accel, Lakestar, and Elad Gil participating. The British startup builds low-cost interceptors for drones and cruise missiles — the whole pitch being that $500 drones shouldn’t have to be met with $2M missiles. Nearly 50 open roles available.
Similar thesis, smaller check: Aurelius Systems took a $40M Series A co-led by Draper Associates and KAS to scale Archimedes, its autonomous laser c-UAS platform. Aurelius is currently just 19 people but has 16 roles open and a stated plan to double headcount by year-end.
Atlas Motion came out of stealth with $11.5M from Greycroft, building motors and actuators for drones and defense platforms. Hiring still TBD.
And we can’t close out the lede without mentioning manufacturing rockstar Hadrian, which closed $1.37B at a $7.87B valuation on Thursday, its second raise in 13 months. Wunderkind Chris Power has 132 open roles for the factory-curious.
This week’s board skews heavily toward manufacturing and production engineering. If you have been on the fence about a factory-floor role at a venture-backed company, this is the week to look.
Now, onto the jobs…
Featured Job: if you are an experienced Forward-Deployed Engineer who has hacked it at the highest levels and is now looking to be employee #1 in a career-defining role with a heroic founder in the Special Operations, reach out with your resume. Must be technical. Don’t kid yourself!
📈 Growth Family Jobs (BD, Sales, Contracting)
CesiumAstro (phased arrays) - Director of Business Development - Austin, TX
Muon Space (LEO satellites) - Director, Business Development - Washington, DC / Virginia
NODA AI (autonomy orchestration) - Business Development Manager, Special Operations / Senior Integrated Marketing Manager - Austin, TX
Rainmaker (cloud seeding) - Director of Business Development - Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
Sierra Space (space infrastructure) - Director, Business Development (Clearance Required) - Louisville, CO
Swift Navigation (precise positioning) - Senior Manager Business Development New Markets - San Francisco, CA
Veilant (signature management) - Solutions Engineer - Tysons, VA
📋 Strategy & Ops Family Jobs (Biz Ops, People, CoS, Finance)
Anduril (autonomy) - Associate Director, International Project Logistics - Costa Mesa, CA / Ashville, OH
Blue Origin (space launch) - Sr. Manager, National Security Space Policy - Arlington, VA
Chaos Industries (sensing systems) - Contracts & Legal Operations Specialist - El Segundo, CA
Defense Unicorns (secure software delivery) - Director Of Space Operations - Remote
Muon Space (LEO satellites) - Mission Execution Chief of Staff - San Jose, CA
NODA AI (autonomy orchestration) - Contracts Manager - Austin, TX
Saronic (autonomous surface vessels) - Senior Security Operations Analyst - Austin, TX / San Diego, CA
Zoox (autonomous vehicles) - Manager, City Operations - Miami, FL
🏗️ Product Family Jobs (Product, Program, Success)
Anduril (autonomy) - Senior Program Manager, Launched Effects - Atlanta, GA
Apptronik (advanced robotics) - Senior Product Manager, Hardware Platform - Austin, TX
Genlogs (freight intelligence) - Scaled Customer Success Manager - Richmond, VA / Washington, DC / Atlanta, GA
Infleqtion (quantum technology) - Director, Manufacturing and Program Development Operations - Louisville, CO
Overland AI (ground autonomy) - Senior Program Manager - Seattle, WA
Scale AI (AI data platform) - Senior AI Product Manager, Cybersecurity - New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
Sierra Space (space infrastructure) - Sr Director, Production Operations - Satellite and Spacecrafts - Louisville, CO
🔨 Engineering - Hardware
Castelion (low-cost strike weapons) - Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Avionics - Torrance, CA
CesiumAstro (phased arrays) - Senior RF Test Engineer II - Westminster, CO
Epirus (directed energy) - Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering - Torrance, CA
Formlabs (3D printing) - Senior Mechanical Engineer - Boston, MA / Somerville, MA
Hgen (clean hydrogen) - Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
K2 Space (large satellites) - Senior Fluids Manufacturing Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
Radiant (microreactors) - Senior Mechanical Engineer (Structures) - El Segundo, CA
🧑💻 Engineering - Software
Applied Intuition (autonomy) - Lead Software Engineer, Physical AI (Defense) - Arlington, VA
Chaos Industries (sensing systems) - Staff Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA
Forterra (ground autonomy) - Director of DevOps and Tooling - Clarksburg, MD
Hadrian (manufacturing automation) - Data Platform Engineer / ML Platform Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
NODA AI (autonomy orchestration) - Senior Full Stack Engineer - Austin, TX
Overland AI (ground autonomy) - Director of Software Engineering, Behaviors and Planning - Seattle, WA
Varda Space Industries (in-space manufacturing) - Senior Flight Software Engineer, C++ - El Segundo, CA
📝 Internships
Varda and SpaceX both dropped big 2027 classes this week. Some highlights:
Varda Space Industries (in-space manufacturing) - all in El Segundo, CA:
SpaceX (space launch) - Spring 2027 classes:
Business Operations Internship/Co-op - Brownsville, TX / Cape Canaveral, FL / Hawthorne, CA
Civil/Structural Engineering Internship - Hawthorne, CA / Cape Canaveral, FL / Starbase, TX
Engineering Internship/Co-op - Brownsville, TX
Everyone else:
E-Space (space IoT) - Engineering / Characterization Lab Intern - Arlington, TX
Formlabs (3D printing) - Social Media Engineering Intern (Fall) - Somerville, MA
Impulse Space (in-space mobility) - Avionics Manufacturing Engineering Intern (Fall) - Redondo Beach, CA
Rainmaker (cloud seeding) - Mechanical Engineering Intern (Fall) - El Segundo, CA
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