Firestorm Labs is seeking an experienced and motivated Applications Engineering Manager to lead xCell’s expanding Applications Engineering team. This people manager role specializes in additive manufacturing, post operations and box builds, with a focus on industrial polymer additive manufacturing. You will oversee a diverse team tackling complex DFAM engineering challenges across polymer and metal applications, working closely with customers and cross-functional teams.
Firestorm is looking for a dynamic, mission-aligned Business Development Manager to drive our engagement with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. In this role, you will shape strategy, forge relationships, and identify opportunities where Firestorm’s cutting-edge systems can close critical capability gaps. The ideal candidate will excel at collaborating with and influencing diverse cross-functional Navy & Marine Corps stakeholders and navigating opportunities across the Department of Navy (DON). This role calls for an entrepreneurial self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, small business setting, and can confidently influence peers and senior colleagues while contributing across the entire business development, capture, and proposal development lifecycle. You’ll operate at the intersection of defense acquisition, operational planning, and advanced technology delivery—bridging customer need and product innovation.
We’re looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Buyer to join our growing team in San Diego. In this high-impact role, you’ll be responsible for sourcing critical components, managing Bills of Materials (BOMs), and ensuring timely material availability to support the development of next-generation hardware and integrated systems. This is a hands-on role where your attention to detail, ability to navigate complex supplier ecosystems, and proactive mindset will help mitigate risk, reduce costs, and keep mission-critical programs on track from prototype to full-rate production. You’ll interface regularly with internal teams, suppliers, and customers to ensure the seamless acquisition of materials and services that meet stringent quality and delivery standards.
As Chief of Staff to the Chief Technical Officer (CTO), you will serve in a critical, high-trust, and strategic role supporting the Co-Founder and CTO across a range of responsibilities. You will help ensure alignment, execution, and momentum on the company’s technical priorities, spanning advanced additive manufacturing, autonomy, hardware, product, and software. You are proactive, anticipate needs, translate ideas into action, remove obstacles, and help drive communication and decision-making processes across the company's largest and most complex organization.
You are exceptionally organized, skilled at creating clear and compelling presentations, meticulous about grammar, and someone who steps in to fill gaps without hesitation. This position demands the highest levels of professionalism, discretion, and adaptability within the intense, fast-paced environment of a cutting-edge hard tech startup. This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation and intuition, strategic thinking ability, and a talent for synthesizing information, setting priorities, and driving execution across a complex organization. You operate equally well as an advisor and an operator, maintaining a mission-first mindset, a low ego, and the resilience needed to support a fast-moving organization.
This role will help ensure that critical work stays on track, manage high-level executive engagements with poise, and position the CTO for success in every setting. As a key point of contact for executive communication, you will help coordinate across leadership, employees, customers, partners, and other external stakeholders. As the CTO’s trusted partner, you will provide operational and strategic support to keep them focused, prepared, and empowered to lead effectively.
Firestorm Labs is seeking an experienced Director of Marketing to lead strategic marketing efforts that advance our mission to restore America’s industrial and technological edge in national defense. This is a rare opportunity to build one of the most iconic brands in defense. The foundation is in place; the product, traction, and execution are already working. We’re looking for a marketing leader who can elevate our image, tell our story with clarity and power, and help define the next era of American defense innovation.
This leadership role will develop and execute integrated marketing strategies that grow awareness, generate demand, and position Firestorm as a category-defining company in autonomy, defense and dual-use tech. Working closely with the Founders and Executive Team, you’ll craft annual marketing plans that align brand, digital, and product initiatives with company growth goals. You’ll own campaigns that shape industry perception, engage key stakeholders including the DoD and innovation partners, and drive demand for Firestorm’s autonomous systems.
Your scope includes brand positioning, content strategy, go-to-market planning, sales enablement, and support for investor relations, as well as managing PR and proactively addressing crisis communications. Collaboration with product, business development and external partners is essential to ensure mission-aligned, measurable outcomes. Success in this roles requires a strategic, hands-on marketer who thrives in a fast-paced, technical environment and is passionate about revitalizing the U.S. defense industrial base. You’ll have direct influence over marketing investments and the opportunity to build and lead a high-performing team dedicated to sustainable growth and defense innovation leadership.
Firestorm Labs is on a mission to redefine how autonomous systems are built, deployed, and scaled faster, smarter, and at the edge of possibility. As an Electronics Engineering Technician, you won’t just be building boards and testing circuits, you’ll be enabling the rapid development of the world’s next-generation autonomous defense platforms.
In this hands-on, high-impact role, you’ll partner closely with engineers, fabricators, and manufacturing teams to bring advanced electronics systems from prototype to production. Whether it's assembling a critical control module, debugging a flight system or optimizing our build processes, your contributions will directly shape the performance and reliability of mission-critical technologies. This is a role for a doer; someone who thrives on the manufacturing floor and in the lab, solves problems under pressure, and takes pride in precision.
The ideal candidate has previously experience as a a hands-on technician with strong experience in electronics assembly, test and diagnostics, who thrives in a fast-paced, high-mix environment and enjoys collaborating across disciplines to bring cutting-edge products to life. If you're driven by hardware, purpose and the chance to make a real-world impact, we want you on the team.
Firestorm Labs is seeking a skilled and driven Field Service Engineer (FSE) to join our growing team, supporting the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of HP 3D printers and adjacent additive manufacturing equipment. In this role, you’ll be on the front lines delivering high-caliber service, ensuring uptime, and helping customers maximize the value of their 3D printing systems.
You’ll be joining a mission-driven company pushing the boundaries of advanced manufacturing, with a direct impact on customer success and product performance. As the face of Firestorm Labs in the field, you’ll ensure exceptional technical support and customer satisfaction. We're looking for someone who’s equally comfortable with hands-on troubleshooting, clear technical communication, and supporting cross-functional teams like engineering, and operations.
Firestorm Labs is seeking a seasoned and driven Manufacturing Operations Manager to lead the production and assembly of Firestorm’s xCell mobile manufacturing platform. This is a people-first leadership role that combines hands-on operational oversight with strategic planning to scale manufacturing in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment. You will be responsible for building and managing a high-performing manufacturing team while driving operational excellence across supply chain, production workflows, inventory, quality, and integration testing.
This role will also play a critical role in new product introduction, collaborating closely with engineering, field operations and external contract manufacturers to ensure a smooth transition from prototype to full-scale production. The ideal candidate thrives in dynamic environments, takes ownership, and brings both tactical execution and strategic vision to the manufacturing process. A strong understanding of industrial systems, process improvement methodologies, and cross-functional collaboration is essential.
As a Material Handler at Firestorm Labs, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the smooth and timely flow of materials across our lean manufacturing production floor, with minimal disruption and maximum efficiency. Your primary responsibility is to proactively anticipate material needs, precisely deliver components to the point of use, and swiftly remove finished goods and waste. You’ll be at the center of our operations, enabling the rapid development of next-generation unmanned aerial systems (UAS) through accurate, timely, and traceable movement of materials.
This is a hands-on, fast-paced role that blends traditional material handling with shipping, receiving, inventory control, and lean material flow management. The right person for this role demonstrates strong ownership, excellent organizational skills, sharp attention to detail, and the ability to solve operational challenges with creative solutions in a fast-moving, resource-limited environment. Flexibility is key; you'll jump in wherever needed to ensure products are shipped and received under stringent quality standards. You’ll be a key enabler of operational efficiency and help drive momentum on the shop floor.
Firestorm Labs is seeking a Proposal & Capture Manager to lead and drive the strategic development, capture, and proposal execution of high-priority defense opportunities. This role is central to our mission of delivering cost-effective, innovative defense solutions that empower U.S. ally nations to meet their security objectives. As a Proposal & Capture Manager, you will own the full business development lifecycle from early opportunity shaping and customer engagement, to proposal development and contract submission.
You will take full ownership of high-value opportunities, crafting and implementing tailored capture strategies, engaging directly with key customers, managing strategic partnerships, and leading internal teams through every stage of the pursuit. Simultaneously, you will oversee the proposal development process, from kickoff through final submission, ensuring compliance, compelling content, and alignment with capture objectives. Your ability to balance technical, operational, and financial considerations while collaborating across business functions will be essential to winning Firestorm’s most strategic contracts.
At Firestorm Labs, we are building the future of distributed, mission-adaptive airpower for the modern warfighter. We are seeking a highly analytical, detail-oriented Industrial Engineer to join our team and drive operational excellence. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing and optimizing operations, improving processes, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency across our additive manufacturing, assembly, and test operations. Your work will play a crucial role in developing strategies to scale Firestorm’s production capacity and ensure mission success.
This is a hands-on, technical position where precision, discipline, and accountability are paramount. The hardware you help create will take flight, and your contributions will directly influence the tactical readiness and operational success of Firestorm’s platforms.
Firestorm is seeking a Senior Multimedia and Camera Systems Software Engineer to join our dynamic team, either remotely, or in our San Diego office. In this role, you will lead the integration, control, and optimization of advanced camera and gimbal systems, as well as the development of multimedia streaming, encoding, and storage capabilities. Your work will be central to how our autonomous systems gather, process, and transmit mission-critical visual data, enabling real-time awareness across aircraft, ground control stations, and distributed networks.
As a senior-level engineer, you will serve as a key technical contributor, working hands-on with software and hardware teams to design high-performance systems that meet demanding operational requirements. This is not a people manager role, but it does require leadership in execution, cross-functional collaboration and technical decision-making. You will work closely with engineers, product stakeholders, and system integrators to define capabilities and ensure seamless platform integration.
You will play a pivotal role in advancing the visual sensing and data processing functionality of Firestorm’s uncrewed aerial systems. We are looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals, excellent communication skills, and a drive for precision and performance. You should be comfortable operating independently while also mentoring peers in a fast-paced, mission-focused environment. The ability to lead projects from concept to completion, and to clearly communicate complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences, will make you a standout contributor in this role.
We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Tactical Applications team and help shape the next generation of mission-critical software for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). In this high-impact role, you’ll lead the development of Ground Control Station (GCS) applications that power the Firestorm UAS platform, along with cross-platform and mobile tools that support real-time tactical operations.
Whether you're working remotely or based out of our San Diego headquarters, you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to build robust, intuitive, and secure software used in real defense missions. Your work will directly support warfighters in the field, combining modern C++ and the Qt framework to deliver sensor integration, autonomy, and command and control capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to apply enterprise-grade engineering to national security and contribute to a mission that matters.
As a Senior Technical Program Manager at Firestorm, you will take charge of mission-critical programs that push the boundaries of aerospace and defense technologies. You’ll be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end execution of complex projects, ensuring the seamless integration of technical, schedule, and cost objectives to deliver innovative, high-performance systems.
This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned program manager to influence key decisions, lead cross-functional teams, and drive both innovation and operational excellence in programs that directly impact national security. You will collaborate closely with Business Development, Operations, and Engineering teams, maintaining a strong focus on program execution, customer satisfaction, and delivering cutting-edge technologies that meet the highest standards.
At Firestorm Labs, we’re shaping the future of autonomous systems for national security. As a UAS Operational Pilot & Instructor, you’ll be a key member of our team—executing live demonstration & field exercises, instructing military, civilian and international users. You’ll also develop next-generation UAS tactics, techniques and procedures that drive the integration of cutting-edge UAS capabilities.
This is a hands-on, dual-role position that blends operational flying with technical training and field-level product feedback. Supporting critical flight missions, delivering high-impact training, and enabling tactical integration across diverse operational environments. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, product and front-line operators, to ensure mission-ready standards, and safe, effective and repeatable UAS operations. Your work will directly shape how advanced drone technology is deployed and scaled.
There will be operational flight demonstrations and exercises at both CONUS and OCONUS locations that will require travel to support.
At Firestorm Labs, we’re shaping the future of autonomous systems for national security. As a UAS Operational Pilot & Instructor, you’ll be a key member of our team executing live demonstration & field exercises, instructing military, civilian and international users. You’ll also develop next-generation UAS tactics, techniques and procedures that drive the integration of cutting-edge UAS capabilities.
This is a hands-on, dual-role position that blends operational flying with technical training and field-level product feedback. Supporting critical flight missions, delivering high-impact training, and enabling tactical integration across diverse operational environments. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, product and front-line operators, to ensure mission-ready standards, and safe, effective and repeatable UAS operations. Your work will directly shape how advanced drone technology is deployed and scaled.
