Founding Creative & Videographer

The role

You will own the visual and narrative system for Aurelius across YouTube, X, and launch content. You will shoot, edit, and ship end to end, covering factory floors, field tests, and founders.

What you will do

• Visual and narrative system for Aurelius across YouTube, X, and launch content
• Shoot, edit, and ship end to end
• Factory and shop floor documentation in Detroit and SF
• Field test coverage on the 400-acre range
• Founder and ghost writing short, punchy, high-cadence
• Long-form product and launch films
• The branding and company look

Required qualifications

• Shipped real YouTube. Channel, series, or long-form product or factory films you owned end to end
• Portfolio that proves it. Reel plus links
• Gone viral or broken through on X or YouTube with hardware, industrial, auto, aerospace, or defense-adjacent work
• Set the look for something and then gotten behind the camera and cut it yourself
• Talked shop with at least one founder shipping real product
• Native English speaker
• Travel without complaint
• Comfortable embedded with engineers for hours getting one shot right

Nice to have

• Hardware or industrial YouTube channels you ran yourself
• Auto, aerospace, or defense creative shops where you did more than one job
• Studios where you were the whole stack from brief to delivery
• Founder-adjacent creative seats where the content shipped fast and performed
• Built an audience from scratch on hard-to-film subjects
• Made industrial look beautiful
• Shot in environments most creatives would never go

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible 18 days PTO plus 5 sick days
• Travel to field test events and range days
• Covered daily lunches and office snacks and drinks
• E-bike and scooter stipend up to $500
• Direct access to leadership and real ownership over your work

Before you apply

• Requires access to export-controlled information or items that require U.S. Person status (U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or certain protected classes of asylees and refugees)

About the company

Aurelius Systems is a VC backed defense tech startup building autonomous, edge deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS. They build laser weapons to shoot down drones.