# Principal Robotic Controls Engineer

Who We Are Aurelius Systems is a VC backed defense tech startup building autonomous, edge deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS. We build laser weapons to shoot down drones. We're a small team of engineers, former US military operators, and subject matter experts scaling America's directed energy dominance. The first cost effective, reliable and robust laser weapon system. Our namesake isn't an accident. Marcus Aurelius wrote about doing the work in front of you, every day, without excuses. Henry Ford didn't wait for permission to reinvent manufacturing. That's how we operate: small team, unreasonable output, no hiding behind the unachievable. In addition to our San Francisco lab, we opened a Detroit manufacturing hub and field test weekly on our own 400-acre private range. The Role & Your Impact We need a Principal Controls Engineer who owns the math behind putting a laser on a drone and keeping it there. You'll own beam control and tracking as a theory domain across the whole system: the nested coarse and fine pointing architecture, the estimators that fuse radar cues, EO/IR track and inertial data, the jitter and latency budgets, and the analysis that says what the sy

- **Id**: 3837614
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aurelius-systems-principal-robotic-controls-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T18:16:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T21:49:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8693
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Air Defense, Defense Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 669079
- **Name**: Aurelius Systems
- **Domain**: aureliussystems.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aureliussystems>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 72
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 315000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 315000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Error Budget** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Simulink** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:32:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 72
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 315000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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