Backed by Sequoia and Lux.
About the role
This role is currently remote, with an engineering office opening in Southern California this year. We plan to maintain an in-office culture to support high-cadence hardware development and collaboration, with flexibility as needed for travel and global coordination.
What they're looking for
- Own mechanical engineering across Kinetics and CUAS, and lead ME for new business lines as they come online
- Serve as the senior technical authority for mechanical design: requirements, architecture, design reviews, and qualification
- Build and lead the US ME team — own the hiring plan, recruit top talent, and build a culture of trust
- Own design-for-manufacture: work with our head of US manufacturing to take products from small-batch builds to rate production (targeting hundreds of units per day)
- Lead ME support for qualification and safety board approval of our kinetics products, in coordination with the Israel engineering team
- Set the ME toolchain, standards, and processes — keep us fast, and fix anything that slows engineers down
More about this role
Kela is the open, secure operating system that re-orchestrates the modern military stack — integrating any commercial or military technology on hand, without vendor lock. That openness and breadth is the point: sitting at the intersection of hundreds of integrations, we see where true hardware bottlenecks emerge before anyone else does, and we build the solutions to solve them. Backed by Sequoia, Lux, and In-Q-Tel, Kela pairs US industrial strength with Israeli battle-tested innovation to compress capability development from years to days.
This role is currently remote, with an engineering office opening in Southern California this year. We plan to maintain an in-office culture to support high-cadence hardware development and collaboration, with flexibility as needed for travel and global coordination.
Your core mission is to build and lead mechanical engineering at Kela in the US. You are the ME lead for our two business lines — Kinetics and CUAS — and for the new business lines we stand up next. You own the mechanical design of our products from concept through full-rate domestic production, and you build the elite ME team that makes it happen. This is a hands-on leadership...
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