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# Technical Recruiter at Aurelius Systems

- **Company:** Aurelius Systems
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$120k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aureliussystems/74733c10-918f-45a8-99f3-19d39a8ffeb0

## Job description

Who We Are: Aurelius Systems is a VC-backed defense tech startup developing autonomous, edge-deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS. We make laser systems to shot down drones.

Our small team includes engineers, former US military operators, and experts, focused on creating the first cost-effective, reliable, and robust laser weapon system.

## The Role and Your Impact

We're going from ~20 to 60 people in the next six months. Every hire matters. We need a Technical Recruiter to run full-cycle recruiting on our hardest engineering searches while helping build the recruiting machine underneath.

This is a hybrid role. You'll own priority technical searches — screens, process, close — and you'll partner with the Head of Talent on the operating layer that makes hiring scale. You are not a coordinator. You are not a sourcer only. You are the person who moves candidates through the funnel and moves the funnel itself forward.

You'll report to the Head of Talent and work directly with founders and engineering leads. Your reqs will span software, controls, robotics, electrical, optics, and ML.

## What You'll Own

- Full-cycle recruiting on priority technical searches — screens, process management, references, offer coordination
- Candidate qualification and assessment against role requirements, working closely with hiring managers
- Onsite operations: scheduling, travel logistics, invites, candidate-facing communication, tracker hygiene
- Ashby as the single source of truth — clean stages, scorecards, archive hygiene, follow-ups
- Process discipline — same-day debrief cadences after onsites, no candidates stalling in the funnel
- Onboarding coordination handoff for new hires
- Recruiting workflow improvements — templates, reminders, operating cadences, documentation
- Pipeline reporting — weekly syncs, quarterly tracking, sourced vs. inbound, stage conversion, bottlenecks

## What We're Looking For

- 2 to 5 years in recruiting, ideally with meaningful technical searches under your belt
- Experience recruiting deeply technical profiles — hardware, embedded, robotics, controls, optics, ML, or adjacent engineering.
- Strong candidate assessment judgment — you can tell the difference between a builder and someone who talks like one
- ATS discipline — Ashby, Greenhouse, or similar. You keep systems clean without being asked
- Urgency — you move candidates and decisions forward instead of letting process drift
- Comfort with ambiguity, changing priorities, and building process while running it
- High ownership and low drop rate. Details don't slip

Where You Probably Come From Technical recruiting at defense tech, robotics, hardware, or deeptech startups. Agency recruiting where you owned technical searches end to end. In-house recruiting at Series A to Series C companies where you ran multiple reqs at once without a coordinator underneath you. We Want to Talk If You've closed hard technical hires that other recruiters couldn't. You've built process at a small company that made hiring measurably faster. You'd rather run five searches well than ten searches poorly. Not a Fit If Your experience is high-volume non-technical recruiting (retail, hospitality, ops). You've only worked in large recruiting orgs with coordinators doing the process work for you. You need a fully-built playbook to execute — this role builds the playbook.

Nice to Haves

- Ashby ATS experience
- Defense, national security, or ITAR-sensitive recruiting background
- Startup or high-growth company experience
- Recruiting operations, reporting cadences, or process documentation ownership
- Experience recruiting alongside a founder-led hiring bar

What Success Looks Like

- First 90 days: Build a working understanding of Aurelius's roles, technical profiles, and hiring bar. Independently manage screens and process for at least three priority searches. Get Ashby to a clean state and establish a weekly recruiting operating cadence with the Head of Talent.
- 6–12 months: Independently own multiple concurrent searches from kickoff to accepted offer. Contribute 2–4 hires per month during active hiring periods. Build trusted relationships with hiring managers so they trust you to run their loops end to end.

How You Operate:

- Extreme bias for action
- High ownership and low drop rate
- Process-minded without becoming bureaucratic
- Strong operator under ambiguity
- Fast follow-through with clean detail
- Clear communicator with hiring managers, candidates, and founders
- Comfortable making judgment calls with imperfect information

Why Join Aurelius Systems:

- Build the recruiting machine at a company where hiring quality directly shapes company quality. You will help design the systems, run the process, and personally close the people who matter most.
- Career velocity is real. This role is broad by design, with direct exposure to founders, hiring strategy, operating systems, and high-stakes technical hiring.

How We Work: We work Monday through Friday, 9 to 6, most Saturdays, and some evenings, although not constant. Supporting engineering, development, and operations are core responsibilities of the role. We don't manufacture intensity for show, the pace is real because the work is real.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary + equity
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- PTO + sick days
- Daily lunches and office snacks/drinks
- Direct access to leadership
- Real ownership over systems, process, and hiring outcomes

## About Aurelius Systems

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aurelius Systems builds autonomous, directed-energy laser systems to neutralize drone threats for military and defense applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (likely 2024 or early 2025 based on funding timeline)
- **Founders**: Michael LaFramboise (CEO, Co-Founder), John Marmaduke (CTO, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing (Directed Energy / Counter-UAS)
- **Target customers**: Military and defense organizations (DoD, allied nations) needing scalable, cost-effective defense against unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/drones).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build the future of defense with autonomous directed energy built to stop drone threats at the speed of light, for the cost of electricity, anywhere they appear."

## Products & Services
- **[Archimedes]**: An autonomous counter-UAS laser defense system. Combines high-power directed energy lasers, advanced optical sensors, and AI-driven autonomy to detect, track, and neutralize aerial threats in seconds. Designed for field-portability, rapid deployment, and operation in a networked "defense grid" formation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $10.0M in total funding (Seed round, closed October 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst (lead), Draper Associates (lead), and 9 other unnamed investors. The company has also been selected by the U.S. Army for testing (T-REX 26-2 exercise).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +187.5% year-over-year (to ~16 employees). 17 active job postings (monthly postings up +13.3%, quarterly +240%). Demonstrated live field performance at a major U.S. Army exercise in June 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cost-per-kill advantage**: Directed energy lasers fire for the cost of electricity (dollars per shot) vs. traditional missile-based counter-UAS systems that cost "hundreds of thousands per kill."
- **Full autonomy**: The system uses machine learning and optical sensing to detect and engage threats without requiring a human operator to watch a screen — a stated differentiator from other solutions on the market.
- **Speed of light engagement**: Neutralizes threats in seconds, not minutes.
- **COTS-based hardware**: Built on commercial off-the-shelf components for lower cost, faster production, and easier maintenance.
- **Field-proven**: Successfully demonstrated in adverse weather during the T-REX 26-2 exercise.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the company and its manufacturing capacity to meet growing demand from the U.S. military and allied nations.
- Deploying a networked defense grid of multiple Archimedes units for persistent, scalable protection of forces, facilities, and critical infrastructure.
- Continuing rapid R&D iterations driven by real-world field testing.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly contribute to protecting warfighters and critical assets — "build something that matters."
- **Fast-paced, small team culture**: Described as a small team that moves fast, tests in the field, and owns the full lifecycle from R&D to deployment.
- **Early-stage impact**: With only ~16 employees, new hires will have outsized influence and responsibility on the core product.
- **Location**: Based in San Francisco, CA — one of the few defense companies in a city built for tech talent.
- **Benefits**: Full medical, dental, and vision (United Healthcare), 18 days PTO + flexible sick days + 2-week winter break, daily catered lunch + stocked snacks, commuter stipend (up to $500 toward e-bike/scooter), on-site gym, and professional development reimbursement.
- **Work model**: In-office presence (San Francisco HQ). No hybrid/remote-first policy stated.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building hard things quickly, robotics, photonics, mechanical engineering, and AI/ML autonomy.

## Sources
1. [aureliussystems.com](https://www.aureliussystems.com/)
2. [aureliussystems.com/careers](https://www.aureliussystems.com/careers)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/aureliussystems](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aureliussystems)
4. [linkedin.com/company/aurelius-systems](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aurelius-systems)
5. [aureliussystems.com/leadership](https://www.aureliussystems.com/leadership)

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