Founders Associate

The role

You will support the CEO, CTO, and broader company through calendar management, inbox triage, and special projects. The role involves both computer-based work and physical tasks like moving equipment and helping at the shop or test sites.

What you will do

• Manage Founder’s calendar end to end
• Perform inbox triage and follow-ups
• Prepare board, investor, and customer meeting materials
• Handle travel and logistics for field tests, demos, and trips
• Execute special projects end to end
• Build internal tools and automations
• Coordinate visitor and site visits including NDAs
• Move hardware and equipment and help at the shop, test sites, and events

Required qualifications

• Started and ran something such as a business, product, club, or event
• Executed inside a fast-growing, venture-backed startup or chaotic environment
• Built tools such as spreadsheets with formulas, SQL, scripts, Zapier-type automations, or AI workflows
• Owned work where mistakes were visible and kept error rate at zero
• Kept school, a job, and something built moving at the same time
• Competed for things such as selective student orgs, student consulting, tech clubs, or varsity sports
• Rigorous quantitative or dual-focus program or equivalent proof of analytical thinking

Nice to have

• A business you started that made real money
• Comfort with SQL or a scripting language
• A tool or automation you built that other people actually used
• Experience in a hardware, manufacturing, or defense environment
• Experience running logistics for events, trips, or field work

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Requires 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.