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Our mission is to design, build, and deliver real systems that address urgent strategic and industrial capability needs today.\nThe company is fully funded and has confirmed customer demand with orders exceeding projected manufacturing capacity through 2028.\nOur team combines deep technical expertise across multiple disciplines with the operational rigor required to design, manufacture, deploy, and support systems in demanding real-world environments.\nOur culture values execution, builders, doers, and ownership. We move quickly, solve hard problems, and take pride in turning ideas into working systems that deliver meaningful results for our customers and mission partners. If you enjoy building real systems and solving hard problems, we would like to learn more about you. \nABOUT THE TEAM\nSoftware is leverage. \nThe Software & Systems team builds the internal systems that allow a small organization to operate with the efficiency, visibility, and coordination of a much larger one. Rather than treating software as support infrastructure, the group designs the operational backbone that connects engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and decision-making into a single, high-velocity system.\nThe mandate is simple: eliminate friction, compress feedback loops, and turn complex industrial operations into tractable software problems. The team ships pragmatic tools, automation, and data systems that scale across sites and programs-enabling engineers and operators to move faster while the underlying platform quietly compounds capability over time.\nABOUT THE JOB\nWe are looking for a Forward Deployed Controls Engineer to join our growing team in the Dallas / Ft. Worth Metro Area, TX.\nThis role sits at the intersection of controls, software and manufacturing engineering. You will work directly on the factory floor to bring new automation, equipment, and operational systems online. When something doesn't work the first time - which is often - you will be the person who figures out why and makes it work.\nYou will operate in environments with tight timelines, incomplete information, and high expectations. 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