Aureliussystems

Aureliussystems

Sr. Systems Performance Engineer

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 141 days ago
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About the role

  • You'll own the architecture and performance of our full software stack as the Sr.
  • Systems Performance Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • In addition to our San Francisco lab, we've opened a Detroit manufacturing hub and we field test weekly on our own 400-acre private range.
  • Develop and optimize CUDA kernels for high-throughput, low-latency execution
  • We need an engineer who thinks in terms of microseconds, memory bandwidth, cache behavior, and determinism, and who can make architectural calls that the rest of the team builds against.
  • This is a senior IC role with subteam lead scope.
  • You won't own simulators or model orchestration.
  • You will own whether the platform meets its latency budget.
  • DMA and zero-copy pipeline design

Requirements

  • 4+ years in real-time systems or robotics software engineering with real hardware
  • Not a fit if: Your experience is purely web/cloud software, ML research that never deployed to hardware, or you primarily work in managed languages.
  • Prior experience leading a small technical subteam or owning architecture for a production system

Nice to have

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • PhD a plus but not required.

Compensation

  • Competitive salary + equity

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + equity
  • United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible 18 days PTO + 5 sick days
  • E-bike / scooter stipend (up to $500)
  • sensing, computer vision, ML inference, controls, fire control, C2, power, mechanical actuation.

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Role & Your Impact:
  • Our system is a stack of complex subsystems working in concert: sensing, computer vision, ML inference, controls, fire control, C2, power, mechanical actuation.
  • Every microsecond of latency is a drone that gets closer.
  • Every inefficient kernel is a target that gets away.
  • Your job is to make sure the whole stack, not any one piece, runs as fast and as deterministically as physics allows.
  • The critical gap we're hiring for is real-time systems performance architecture at the hardware boundary.
  • You need to understand how software execution translates into physical system behavior; how latency accumulates across CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O; how bandwidth limits affect sensor pipelines; and how architectural decisions upstream constrain what's achievable downstream.
  • You'll set direction on kernel-level optimization, driver work, and latency performance across fire control and C2.
  • What You'll Own:
  • Architecture, performance and latency budget of the full platform, from sensing through actuation
  • Kernel-level and driver-level coding across the stack
  • Profile and eliminate latency across CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O boundaries

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