Manufacturing Engineering Lead

🏢 9 Mothers · 📍 Austin · 💼 onsite · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Location: Onsite — Austin, TX

Employment Type: Direct Hire, Full-Time

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineering Lead

About 9 Mothers

The modern battlefield has changed. Cheap, autonomous suicide drones have turned the tactical advantage upside down, and the world is looking for a solution. At 9 Mothers, we aren’t just "innovating"—we are building the shield.

Backed by top-tier investors, we develop AI powered machines designed to intercept and neutralize Group 1/sUAS threats in real-time. Our flagship product is a low-power, counter-drone system built for the edge—on vehicles, at bases, or in a soldier's pack.

Why 9 Mothers?

While others build for "awareness" or "long-term research," we build for the immediate survival of those in harm’s way. We are a team of hackers, engineers, and mission-driven builders who value field-ready capability over polished slide decks. If you want to see your code or hardware in the field next month—not next year—this is your playground.

Position Summary

We are hiring a Manufacturing Engineering Lead as our first hire focused on manufacturing rather than R&D. Our robotic turret product is moving from engineering-built units toward repeatable production, and we need someone to plant the seeds of our manufacturing process with a clear eye on how that process will scale.

This is a ground-floor role. Today there is no manufacturing organization; you will define its foundations. That starts with the manufacturing strategy itself: what we build in-house in Austin, what we place with contract manufacturers and suppliers, and how that split evolves as volume grows. The processes, documentation, quality practices, and supplier relationships you establish in year one are what the production org will be built on, and for the right person there is real potential to grow into leading that organization as it takes shape.

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