Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Austin, TX

Own budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, monthly reviews, variance analysis, and management reporting for operational teams. Partner with leaders to evaluate staffing, spending, utilization, capacity, and resource tradeoffs. Maintain headcount and labor forecasts, reconcile cost allocations, improve planning processes, and translate operational activity into financial recommendations and decisions.

Build, integrate, validate, troubleshoot, and deploy prototype mechanical and electrical systems for autonomous surface vessels. The role includes fabrication, wiring harness construction, testing, root cause investigations, documentation, lab and shop organization, design-for-serviceability feedback, and field support during dockside, sea trials, and deployments. Travel is typically 50–70%, with frequent work in marine environments and collaboration across engineering, field, mission support, and technical writing teams.

Supports the company’s compliance program by coordinating cross-functional requests, implementing workflows and tracking systems, assisting with investigations, and translating regulatory requirements into practical guidance. The role collaborates with Legal, Engineering, Security, Supply Chain, Production, Mission Operations, People, and Finance. It also supports compliance tooling and processes related to export controls, spectrum authorization, ethics, anti-bribery, international compliance, and internal investigations.

Leads manufacturing finance, including budgeting, forecasting, product costing, overhead rates, variance analysis, COGS, inventory valuation, and margin reporting. Partners with Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, and Accounting on financial models, investment decisions, and operational insights. Builds and develops a finance team while improving costing, reporting, planning processes, and tools in a high-growth manufacturing environment.

Administer and secure classified servers, workstations, networks, virtualized systems, and appliances across SIPR, JWICS, SAP, and laboratory environments. Responsibilities include system hardening, STIG remediation, patching, account administration, logging, incident support, RMF evidence production, COMSEC and TACLANE support, documentation, inventory management, and inspection readiness. The role requires independent work in SCIFs and field sites, collaboration with network and security personnel, and 30–40% travel to sites, shipyards, and integration events.

Designs, operates, and sustains classified LAN/WAN infrastructure, firewalls, TACLANE encryptors, CDS, and network/crypto paths. Integrates government payloads while preserving accredited architectures, produces ATO and RMF evidence, applies STIGs, supports classified circuit turn-up, and performs Tier 2/3 troubleshooting. The role requires hands-on classified network engineering, COMSEC coordination, red/black separation, equipment installation, and frequent travel to facilities, shipyards, labs, and deployed integration sites.

Sources and engages specialized engineering talent across autonomy, robotics, AI/ML, hardware, electrical, embedded, and systems engineering. Develops creative sourcing strategies, builds long-term pipelines, conducts initial technical and eligibility screens, partners with recruiters and engineering leaders, tracks sourcing metrics, maintains ATS records, and supports a strong candidate experience in a fast-paced defense technology environment.

Own the full P&L, forecasting, planning, program economics, cost baselines, EAC reviews, earned value, capital planning, and working capital for shipbuilding defense products. Advise leadership on investments, bids, capacity, and program performance. Build finance processes, reporting, controls, and operating cadences from scratch while hiring and leading a product finance team. Apply defense contracting, manufacturing finance, and long-cycle hardware program finance expertise.

Leads supply chain finance and the monthly S&OP process, translating demand and supply plans into financial forecasts for revenue, costs, inventory, cash, and working capital. Owns raw material standard costing, variance analysis, material cost forecasting, sourcing decisions, and financial models. Partners with Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Accounting, and executives while improving planning systems and processes. The role will build and lead a team of finance professionals as the function scales.

Designs, integrates, and qualifies ruggedized optomechanical assemblies for cameras and imaging sensors on autonomous maritime vessels. Responsibilities include lens mounts, enclosures, gimbals, thermal control, tolerance analysis, COTS component integration, environmental testing, prototyping, documentation, and on-water validation. The role requires collaboration with hardware, perception, and autonomy teams to ensure reliable performance under marine vibration, shock, temperature, and sealing constraints.