Illustrative seats — the shape of the work. Not federal vacancies, not USAJOBS, and not a US Tech Force application. Real hiring happens on those official channels.
Role
Convoy-replacement prototypes that stay inside a dispatcher’s fence.
You would build · Geofence, teleop handoff, and a kill switch you can reach with gloves on.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
Write the tests that prove a person is still the one who releases.
You would build · Second-test harness, audit schema, and a red team that tries to skip the gate.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
Boards that perceive and control without becoming a second brain.
You would build · A sensor fusion board with a documented power budget and a hard watchdog.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
Pictures of the water a watch officer can refuse.
You would build · Detection that shows its confidence, and a blank state when the sensor lies.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
A line that still ships robots when one supplier disappears.
You would build · Cell layout, second-source list, and a line-stop that is a logged human act.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
From one prototype to a hundred, still Made in USA.
You would build · Work instructions a new hire can follow and a yield number you do not decorate.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
Heat, dust, and distance trials with the failures published.
You would build · Range cards, instrumentation, and a report that names what broke.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
Charging and watt-hour budgets that survive day thirty.
You would build · A power model, a field charger concept, and a fail-to-off test.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
Detect fast. Touch another network only when a person arms it.
You would build · Explainable alerts and a containment switch that defaults to off.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
The screen where a crew holds a satellite still.
You would build · A hold point, a late-link rule, and a replayable decision log.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
A boat that reports honestly and waits when the link dies.
You would build · Degraded-comms behavior and a return-to-hold that does not improvise.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.
Keep builder tools on public information. No quiet exceptions.
You would build · A data-classification checklist and a reject path when someone pastes the wrong thing.
Illustrative only. No application is collected here.