9 Mothers: Counter-Drone Defense Systems Company Hiring Engineers in Austin
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9 Mothers, a counter-drone defense systems company based in Austin, presents its engineering philosophy and hiring pitch. The company emphasizes building hardware and software with short iteration loops, real telemetry data, operator-in-the-loop design, and cost-effective manufacturing. They are hiring across audio ML, DSP, systems, and software roles, offering engineers ownership of entire systems rather than isolated tickets.
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· 5 pulledThe work is the perk.
You'll own a system, not a Jira ticket.
We instrument what we build and we iterate on what the data tells us — not on what the roadmap deck promised six months ago.
Mass, setup time, and human factors are first-class specs.
Cost-per-shot, serviceability, and manufacturability are design requirements from day one.
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