Build the system that can't fail.
We are four people in Huntsville, Alabama working on one specific problem: kinetic defeat of drone swarms in the failure mode after jamming has stopped working. The work is not abstract. We test against real threat profiles in real airspace environments adjacent to Redstone Arsenal. If building defense hardware with direct operational consequences is what you want, this is it.
Open Positions
Senior Embedded Systems Engineer
You will own the firmware stack for ARES-1's sensor acquisition and fire control interfaces. The role requires comfort with real-time constraints, hardware debugging at the register level, and a willingness to test in the field when the software needs it.
Express InterestComputer Vision / ML Engineer
You will improve and maintain the multi-modal classification model that runs on ARES-1's edge inference hardware. The work involves adversarial evaluation, synthetic data generation, and field testing against evolving threat drone profiles. Inference latency is a hard constraint — every model improvement competes with 120ms.
Express InterestDefense Systems Integration Engineer
You will own the system integration work for ARES-1's command and control interfaces, including STANAG 4586 compliance development, MIL-STD environmental testing coordination, and field evaluation with military customer contacts. Previous Army acquisition or T&E background is highly relevant.
Express InterestBusiness Development — Government
You will lead the government acquisition pipeline — identifying the right program offices, navigating OTA and SBIR pathways, and building the relationships that lead to evaluation contracts. Existing relationships in the counter-UAS or Army ground forces space are the primary qualification.
Express InterestWorking at Askarl
Problem-driven work
The problem is specific and the stakes are clear. We are not building a platform or an integration layer. We are building one system that intercepts drones before they reach their target. The engineering decisions have direct operational consequences. If you find that motivating, this is the right environment.
Access to real test environments
Proximity to Redstone Arsenal and the Huntsville defense test infrastructure means we test against real threat profiles in real airspace — not simulations. If your work depends on field data to improve, you will get it. The feedback loop is months shorter than it would be anywhere else.
Competitive compensation
We pay base salaries competitive with Huntsville defense-industry rates. We offer equity appropriate to stage and role — no inflated offers tied to round size, because we are bootstrapped and honest about it. We do not have a foosball table or a \"snack wall.\" We have a specific, unsolved problem in a market that needs it solved, and the team to work it. If that is what you find motivating, that is what we offer.