aico management group, inc. company
Transforming, Tomorrow, Today
Ananziy Defense Labs a program out of AICO Management Group, Inc. welcomes prospective Management partners who can push our vision of the future forward. We're currently searching for an experienced Aerospace Engineers for our department known as Ananziy Defense Labs. ADL is a defense technology consulting program with a mission to transform Africa and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st centurv's most innovative companies to the defense industry, ADL is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. ADL's family of systems is powered by an advanced operating system, an Al-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, ADL is committed to bringing cutting-edge cyber security, autonomy, Al, computer vision, sensor fusion, Biotech, networking technology, and advanced weaponry to the militaries in Sub-Saharan Africa within months, not years.
The Sauce
The Hardware engineering team builds product, researches material, instigates change, extends the reach of the organization, and scales ADL's influence to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers. As the machine learning hardware engineer you will lead technically, the team of engineers closest to ADL's Mission, Hardware Engineers solves technical challenges of operational scenarios while controlling the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Counter Intrusion, Joint All Domain Command and Control, and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems. As a Hardware Engineer you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomous systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that ADL products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Hardware Engineers are driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset-executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on time, and with high quality.
What We Value
* Customer Facing - Ability to translate prototypes to client and stakeholders understanding the ADL customers, end-users, and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.
* Mission First - Above all, Our Engineers execute their mission in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way. They keep the mission top-of-mind and make pragmatic and thoughtful engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes.
* Small Project Wrangling = Large Project Impact - Our PSEs are the voice of our business line (s). They are the forcing function that gets us to think about how a project will transition to production and tie in, to the centralized functions across the business.
* Embrace Challenge (and follow through) - We take responsibility for achieving the mission; Developing technical self-sufficiency across a wide range of environments. Ruthlessly prioritizing, while honing our ability to understand large systems and incorporate new components in varying levels of complexity.
Responsibilities
* Utilize your tech stack to complete mission objectives, able to scale with company.
* Expert in writing code without google or chatgpt, able to adapt opensource code for appropriate applicaitons.
* Participate in collaborative business meetings to update key stakeholders
* Continous improvement of prototypes
* Design perfect products that look finished
* Interact with clients and respond to important inquiries about the company's products or services within your scope
* Project Management/ Hardware Manufacturing Skills
* Own the Hardware solutions that are deployed to customers
* Design Hardware prototypes and custom machine learning Hardware platforms to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
* Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
* Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
* Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
* Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
* Fully Remote
Core Requirements
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
* GRIT
* Rocket engine development experience
* Organizational skills, Problem-solving skills
* Curiosity and Privacy - confidentiality amongst all stakeholders
* Prior business ownership experience is a plus.
* Educational background in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering
* Masters or 8 years of equivalent experience (Preferred)
* MA in Computer hardware engineering or related field or 8 years of equivalent experience
"The Major Key" 🔑
* Come to us with a Bantu-collectivist mindset *
This role is 100% commission-based or Client Contingent Certain Candidates will receive stock and patent credit depending on contribution and skill level Based on performance standards and goals and comes with scheduling flexibility, Training, and autonomy.
Industry
* Rocket engineering
* Aerospace product
* Scalable Manufacturing
* DEW Technology
* Infrastructure Redevelopment-reinforcing
$000,000 - $100,000 a year For Full Time Contract Opportunities: The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and training, critical skills, and business considerations. ADL is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The ADL team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you!
