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title: 'Electrical Engineer (Control Systems) at Traysar'
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# Electrical Engineer (Control Systems) at Traysar

- **Company:** Traysar
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar/96114729-7c80-4e21-8cf3-2b184b2fca6e

## Job description

## About Traysar

Traysar was founded in 2025 by second time tech founders, recipients of the Israel Defense Prize, and engineers from elite military units, the Boring Company and SpaceX. Backed by Lux Capital and the founders of Anduril, the leading autonomous defense company, Traysar is reclaiming Western Deterrence by developing and deploying technologies for the 5th domain of warfare: the underground.

Job Summary

Traysar is seeking a highly motivated and experienced founding Electrical Engineer to join our team. The machines you design and are responsible for getting built will be used to destroy hundreds of miles of tunnels currently used for terrorist activities. The candidate will work with a mechanical engineer (hydraulics) and report to an electromechanical engineer (team lead).

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- End-to-end ownership of motor design, power distribution, and machine control systems.
- Development and tuning of motor controllers, actuators, drive logic, and safety interlocks.
- Production of detailed schematics, wiring diagrams, and harness layouts.
- Selection of motors, drivers, batteries/power supplies, and all electrical components.
- Build and test control loops, sensor interfaces, and low-level firmware.
- Validation of electrical systems during prototype builds and field tests; troubleshooting and system optimization.
- Close collaboration with the electro-mechanical lead to implement subsystem requirements and ensure seamless integration with hydraulics, chassis, and autonomy modules.

## BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 7+ years of work experience.
- Degree in any field of engineering or equivalent training.
- Experience with 3D CAD modeling and 2D drawing specifications.
- Experience with heavy equipment hydraulic systems (tractors, excavators, mining systems).

## PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Strong background in motor control, power electronics, and high-current distribution for mobile machinery.
- Experience designing electrical and control systems for hydraulic or heavy-equipment platforms.
- Proficient in schematic design, wiring and harness development, and integrating motors, drivers, sensors, and low-level control firmware.
- Comfortable debugging electrical systems under load and working with ruggedized, vibration- and shock-tolerant components.
- Able to own the full electrical stack from concept through field testing and integrate tightly with mechanical and hydraulic subsystems.

If there is a fit, we'll schedule two technical interviews. For the second one you will prepare a short presentation about something you built that you are proud of. Those who pass the technical interviews will proceed to a third and final interview on-site.

## About Traysar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Traysar engineers autonomous underground systems for strike and defense, aiming to secure U.S. military dominance in the subterranean domain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed VC)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Yadin Soffer (CEO), Asher Katz, Gilad Adin

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Defense technology, autonomous systems, subterranean warfare, military robotics
- **Target customers**: U.S. Department of Defense, allied military forces, government and defense-sector customers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To transform the Earth’s crust into a three-dimensional maneuver space, exposing subterranean threats and equipping the armies of the free world to fight in the underground domain.

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Tunnel Breaching & Tactical Exploration Platform**: An excavator-class autonomous platform that rapidly navigates, maps, and clears contested underground networks.
- **High-Speed Rapid-Burrowing Autonomous Platform**: Creates precision subterranean access points and delivers critical payloads beneath the surface.
- **Subterra Systems for Strike & Defense**: Full-spectrum capabilities including autonomy, persistent communications, mapping & localization, underground intelligence, distributed infrastructure, and geological intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $25M (Seed round, raised as of June 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Silent Ventures; joined by Lux Capital, Ora Global, NeverLift VC, Mana, Impatient Ventures, New Vista Capital, Entree Capital, and strategic angel investors including Steve Blank, and founders from Anduril and Erebor among others.
- **Growth Signals**: Emerged from stealth at the 2026 Reindustrialize Summit; founded in 2025 and already raised a $25M seed round; engineering team includes early engineers from SpaceX and The Boring Company.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in a new domain**: Traysar is positioning itself as the world’s first "subterra defense tech company," addressing a massive capability gap in subterranean warfare that the global defense industry has largely ignored.
- **Unique technology stack**: Combines military boring, autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments, and real-time underground mapping — capabilities that are extremely difficult to replicate.
- **Strong founder pedigree**: Co-founders and early engineers come from SpaceX, The Boring Company, Anduril, and other elite defense/engineering organizations.
- **Clear strategic relevance**: Addresses a documented threat — the U.S. Army estimates more than 10,000 known military facilities are hidden underground worldwide.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Developing and fielding autonomous platforms for subterranean maneuver and infrastructure survivability; building a complete suite of Subterra systems for strike, defense, protection, and denial operations.
- **Direction for growth**: Expanding from seed stage to operational deployment with the U.S. military and allied forces; hardening critical infrastructure and preserving logistical continuity under attack.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: The company describes itself as working on "the 21st century’s most important problem" — securing military dominance in a new domain.
- **Elite engineering culture**: The team includes early engineers from SpaceX and The Boring Company, suggesting a high-caliber, fast-paced, and technically challenging environment.
- **Early-stage impact**: As a seed-stage company founded in 2025, employees have the opportunity to shape the technology and culture from the ground up.
- **Location**: Headquartered in Austin, Texas, a growing tech and defense hub.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly stated, but the culture emphasizes working with "the best engineers" on a critical national security mission. The careers page ([jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar)) lists current openings for further details on specific roles and benefits.

## Sources
1. [traysar.com](https://traysar.com)
2. [traysar.com/news](https://traysar.com/news/traysar-raises-25m-seed)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/traysar)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/traysar-industries)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traysar)

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