Sovereign-scale infrastructure, at lightspeed. Backed by Space Capital.
About the role
Own the network inside Surge Hub, our rapidly deployable power system. Take today's early design and turn it into a secure, production-ready architecture. Segment traffic so control traffic stays isolated, while the devices that need internet connectivity get a clean, secure path out. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Network security depth: segmentation, hardening, firewall policy, and secure remote access
- C and C++. Surge Hub firmware and software are written in them
- A background in hardware or embedded products: power, aerospace, automotive, robotics, or defense. The domain matters less than the hardware
- Startup experience, or time at a hard-tech company where you owned more than your title said
More about this role
First Order Effects · Austin, TX
First Order Effects (FOE) is building America's Infrastructure Prime for the robotic era. Autonomous ships, drones, and robots are rewriting how the world moves, fights, and builds - but none of them work without infrastructure to power them, connect them, and launch and recover them. That's what we build.
Our team comes from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, Lockheed Skunk Works, Forterra, and Fuse Energy. Before founding FOE, we built satellite ground stations that closed a national comms gap in days, deployed multi-megawatt power systems at commercial speed, and shipped autonomous surface vessels into Navy fleet production. We've built infrastructure at lightspeed before - now we're applying that playbook to an entire company.
Own the network inside Surge Hub, our rapidly deployable power system. Take today's early design and turn it into a secure, production-ready architecture.
Segment traffic so control traffic stays isolated, while the devices that need internet connectivity get a clean, secure path out.
Build for uptime: backup WAN, failover, and a network that holds when a link drops in the field.
Design with security in mind from the first switch,...
Browse similar: Startup jobs