The Role and Your Impact:

We need a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead demonstrations, field tests, and field integration on Archimedes. You're a generalist engineer who can work across mechanical, electrical, and software when the system is in front of a customer or downrange. You'll set it up, you'll fix it when it breaks, and you'll be the credible technical face of Aurelius when an operator is standing next to you. Between deployments you're back at the lab testing, breaking things on purpose, and bringing what you learned in the field back into the build.

What You'll Own:

• System setup, integration, and operation at demonstrations, field tests, and customer sites
• Field troubleshooting and repair across mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems
• Pre-deployment system checkout and packing, post-deployment teardown and debrief
• Real-time integration work on novel hardware and software in non-lab conditions
• Customer-facing technical interaction during demos, tests, and pilots
• Capturing field observations, failure modes, and operator feedback and feeding them back to engineering
• In-lab testing, characterization, and rig work between deployments

What We're Looking For:

• 3 to 8+ years of hands-on engineering or technician experience on real hardware, ideally on systems that left the lab
• Generalist depth across at least two of: mechanical, electrical, embedded software, integration
• Hands-on troubleshooting skills with scope, multimeter, basic shop tools, and command line
• Comfortable presenting and operating in front of customers, including military operators
• Travel-ready and physically able to support field deployments including range conditions and equipment handling

Where you probably come from: Field service or test engineering at defense or aerospace companies, integration roles at hardware startups, military maintenance or test trades, motorsports or robotics field teams, or any program where you owned a system at the test site.

We want to talk if: You've stood next to a piece of hardware in front of a customer when something failed and brought it back online. You're comfortable being the only engineer on site. You don't lose your composure when the system does.

Not a fit if: Your experience is lab-only with no field exposure, you've never owned a customer-facing demo, or you need a full team to debug a problem.

Nice to Haves:

• Military service or close exposure to military operating environments
• Counter-UAS, directed energy, or air defense experience
• ROS2 or robotics field integration experience
• Active TS/SCI clearance or eligibility
• Welding, machining, or fabrication shop skills

Education:

AA, BS, MS, or PhD. No specific degree required. Trade school, military training, or engineering degree all welcome. What you've fielded matters more than where you went to school.

How You Operate:

• Extreme bias for action.
• Calm under pressure. The customer doesn't see the panic; they see the fix
• You characterize your own systems before the field does
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration in a startup environment
• Clear communicator across operators, engineers, and customers
• Self directed. You identify what needs to happen next and do it without being told

How We Work:

Core hours are Monday through Friday, 9 to 6. When we're sprinting toward a demo or field test, the team ramps up - nights, weekends, whatever it takes to ship. When the sprint lands, we ramp down. We don't manufacture intensity for show.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary + equity
• United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible 18 days PTO + 5 sick days
• Travel to field test events and range days
• Covered daily lunches and office snacks + drinks
• E-bike / scooter stipend ( Up to $500)
• Direct access to leadership and real ownership over your work