Aurelius Systems

Everyone that starts a reindustrialize-coded company realizes when they go to build their first products that we're extremely weak in our subcomponents and base supply. Many startups are out there working on this but if you're operating as an OEM or System-level supplier you start to get blocked on development pretty quickly. Everyone's got a story, here's ours: We make laser weapon systems, our lasers are pulled from the industrial cutting/welding/annealing market. Laser producers in the west are getting crushed from Chinese mass imports. NLight went down earlier this year and we know other producers in the west are increasingly struggling. Photonics companies aren't looking to fight the fight, they're moving into high power fiber with narrow line widths to sell to the government for $100k/kw, market rate on industrial fiber lasers are more like $10k/kw. This is even if they stay in the game, big opportunity now to be in interconnects and comms fiber for AI data centers Our systems at @aureliuslasers are focused on industrial architectures, interchangeable with welding and cutting lasers To this effect we've begun vertical integration into laser source supply, where large companies are moving out we're headed forthrightly in, but the problem continues even as you go up the supply chain. GaAs diodes, the most expensive part in a fiber laser, are $10+ / Watt in the west, in China they can be $0.50 / Watt. Fiber draw towers still seem competitive There are like 2 gratings companies in the US The only people that can splice specialized fiber well at scale are over 60 years old There's a huge gap in getting back to where we need to be, and it's great we're issuing orders to support this Reindustrialization as we have a supply and skill issue as a nation that I hope we continue to commit to fixing. That being said, many of my Defense/industrial startup cohort will say similar things - we look to our left and right and there still aren't enough of us.

Hiring: Founding Creative / Videographer Competitive starting comp + equity — SF + Detroit (travel both). Report directly to the CEO at @aureliuslasers You're a fit if you have: - Shipped real YouTube (channel, series, or long-form product/factory films you owned end-to-end). - A portfolio that proves it — reel + links only. No resumes. - Gone viral or broken through on X / YouTube with hardware, industrial, auto, aerospace, or defense-adjacent work. - Set the look for something, then gotten behind the camera and cut it yourself. - Talked shop with at least one founder shipping real product (not just decks). - Native English speaker. Aurelius Systems builds autonomous directed energy — lasers that stop drones at the speed of light, for the cost of electricity. Archimedes is autonomous, edge-deployed, and field-repairable. We're a small team in San Francisco and Detroit reindustrializing what defense forgot how to build. The US and our allies are unable to effectively destroy drones at scale, we believe that every day we're delayed more people die, or infrastructure is destroyed to these drones. The job is one seat: creative ideator and videographer. You'll set the visual and narrative system, then shoot, edit, and ship it. Shop floors, field tests, founder cuts for X, longer YouTube / launch films We are a very small and tight knit team, traveling the country shooting down drones with lasers. It's demanding and if you love making hard things look as cool as they are, it's a dream. DM me a reel + YouTube + 2 links if you are a fit (or [email protected] — portfolio only, not interested in a resume, just what you've made).

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Directed energy products never had to be multi-ton hyper expensive behemoths Fully autonomous, edge deployed and field repairable, our Archimedes system is first of its kind Will drop some demonstration videos soon!

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