At Firestorm, we are building the future of expeditionary defense manufacturing and autonomous systems. Modern conflict has exposed a fundamental problem: the systems needed most by operators are often too expensive, too slow to produce, and too difficult to sustain at scale. Firestorm exists to change that.
We develop mission-adaptable aerial systems and deployable manufacturing infrastructure designed to put capability directly into the hands of the warfighter. From modular unmanned aircraft to xCell — our deployable microfactory — our goal is to make defense systems rapidly deployable, adaptable, and producible at the point of need.
We are looking for builders, operators, and problem-solvers who want to work on meaningful technology with real-world impact. About the Role
Firestorm builds uncrewed aircraft and the manufacturing network that produces them: full-capability plants, deployable xCell edge factories, and forward-deployed sites that stand up production near the point of need.
Crucible is the software that runs that network. It plans and executes production across factories that don't look alike, using supply that isn't guaranteed to arrive. It has to answer practical questions: what should we build, where should we build it, what constrains the plan, and what changes when material, capacity, or demand moves.
Many of those are optimization problems. The answer has to account for production capacity, inventory, sourcing, lead times, transportation, and incomplete information. It also has to solve quickly enough to be useful and explain why it produced the plan it did.
We are hiring a Staff Data Scientist to own the optimization and decision science behind Crucible. As the first dedicated data scientist on the team, you'll set the technical direction for how Crucible models and solves planning problems, while staying hands-on building the models that ship in the product. You'll work directly with the Crucible software team and with manufacturing, supply chain, and product as we grow both the platform and the science behind it.