DTJ,
Two companies announced rounds last week, for a total of $215M.
On Tuesday, ICON raised a $200M Series D, co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock. ICON prints buildings with large robots. Most people know it for houses, but the Army is now a big customer. Its careers page lists about 60 roles, most in Austin.
On Thursday, Austin Sensing Company came out of stealth with an $11M seed led by Bow Capital. ASC builds the RF, radar, and acoustic sensors that find drones, and the software that joins them. It has a new 20,000-square-foot factory in Austin. Its job board lists 15 roles, all on-site in Austin.
Defense Tech contracts:
Hadrian signed a seven-year deal with Lockheed Martin. Hadrian will run 24 machines inside Lockheed’s missile plant in Grand Prairie, Texas, starting with parts for PAC-3 and PrSM.
Shift5 announced a $99M Army IDIQ for Next Generation Command and Control.
Epirus won $18M from the Army to put its Leonidas microwave weapon on vehicles.
📍 NYC-area readers: Join us this Wednesday, October 21, for N3: NYC Next-Gen NatSec, an inaugural mixer for the people who build national security in New York. We are hosting it with ACME General, 8090 Industries, and friends, from 5:30 to 8:00pm. RSVP here to get on the list. We hope to see you there.
Now, onto the jobs…
📈 Growth Family Jobs (BD, Sales, Contracting)
Austin Sensing Company (counter-drone sensors) - Head of Federal - Austin, TX
Firehawk Aerospace (rocket motors) - Director of Growth, Missile Systems - Addison, TX
Icon Prime (robotic building solutions) - Sr. Capture Specialist I - Austin, TX
Nozomi Networks (industrial cybersecurity) - Sales Enablement Director - Remote
Varda Space Industries (in-space manufacturing) - Director of Business Development, Indo-Pacific Defense Strategy - Honolulu, HI
📋 Strategy & Ops Family Jobs (Biz Ops, People, CoS, Finance)
Anduril (autonomy) - Director, Government Relations - Washington, DC
Applied Intuition (autonomy) - Head of Hardware Manufacturing Operations - Sunnyvale, CA
Defense Unicorns (secure software delivery) - Director of Federal Operations - Remote
Hadrian (manufacturing automation) - Sr. Manager, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) - Torrance, CA
Onebrief (military planning) - Principal Contracts Strategist - Remote
Skydio (drones) - Head of Supply Chain & Manufacturing Strategy - San Mateo, CA
🏗️ Product Family Jobs (Product, Program, Success)
Anduril (autonomy) - Staff Technical Program Manager, Advanced Targeting Systems - Costa Mesa, CA
CesiumAstro (phased arrays) - Senior Program Manager - Austin, TX / Westminster, CO / El Segundo, CA
HawkEye 360 (RF geospatial intelligence) - Sovereign Program Manager - Herndon, VA
Planet Labs (satellite imagery) - Senior Director, Product Management, Defense and Intelligence - San Francisco, CA / Arlington, VA
Skydio (drones) - Director of Product Management, Platform & Infrastructure - San Mateo, CA
Turion Space (maneuverable spacecraft) - Program Director - Irvine, CA
🔨 Engineering - Hardware
Axiom Space (commercial space station) - Staff Mechanical Engineer, Structures & Mechanisms - Houston, TX
Blue Origin (space launch) - Principal RF Communications Engineer - Denver, CO
Boom Supersonic (supersonic aircraft) - Principal Manufacturing Engineer, Machining - Centennial, CO
Lunar Outpost (lunar rovers) - RF Communications Engineering IPT Lead - Golden, CO
Overview Energy (energy on orbit) - Optics Lab Manager - Ashburn, VA
Saronic (autonomous surface vessels) - Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Austin, TX / Brownsville, TX
Valar Atomics (advanced nuclear) - Staff Mechanical Engineer, Torrance, CA
🧑💻 Engineering - Software
Aurelius Systems (counter-drone lasers) - Sr. Robotics Engineer, Controls - San Francisco, CA
Beacon AI (AI flight safety) - Staff Applied AI Engineer, Agentic Systems - San Carlos, CA
Chaos Industries (counter-drone radar) - Senior/Principal Radar Software Engineer - El Segundo, CA
Kratos (missile systems) - Principal Software Engineer (UAV Embedded) - Roseville, CA
Merlin Labs (autonomous flight) - Staff Software Integration Engineer - Boston, MA
SpaceX (launch and satellite internet) - Lead Software Engineer, Components Test (Starshield) - Hawthorne, CA
Striveworks (AI ops) - Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer - Fort Belvoir, VA / Schofield Barracks, HI
📝 Internships
Axiom Space (commercial space station) - 8 internships across mechanical/aerospace, systems, software, mission operations, production, supply chain, legal, and marketing - Houston, TX
Anduril (autonomy) - 3 internships: Flight Test Engineer, Firmware Engineer, and Product Designer - Costa Mesa, CA
Inversion Space (space re-entry vehicles) - 5 internships: RF, avionics software, avionics mechanical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering - Los Angeles, CA
Muon Space (LEO satellites) - Ground Software Engineering / Spacecraft Test Engineering - San Jose, CA
Skydio (drones) - 4 internships across embedded software, software, manufacturing software, and process engineering - San Mateo, CA
Xona Space Systems (precision navigation) - Mechanical Engineering Co-op - Burlingame, CA
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