IT Support Engineer

The modern battlefield has changed. Cheap, autonomous suicide drones have turned the tactical advantage upside down, and the world is looking for a solution. At 9 Mothers, we aren’t just "innovating"—we are building the shield.

Backed by top-tier investors, we develop AI powered machines designed to intercept and neutralize Group 1/sUAS threats in real-time. Our flagship product is a low-power, counter-drone system built for the edge—on vehicles, at bases, or in a soldier's pack.

While others build for "awareness" or "long-term research," we build for the immediate survival of those in harm’s way. We are a team of hackers, engineers, and mission-driven builders who value field-ready capability over polished slide decks. If you want to see your code or hardware in the field next month—not next year—this is your playground.

As an IT Support Engineer at 9 Mothers, you will serve as the technical backbone of our rapidly growing defense engineering team. We are looking for someone who takes full ownership of our infrastructure, identity systems, and endpoint management. You will build durable configurations, leverage aggressive AI automation, and directly safeguard our mission-critical operations and compliance standards in our Austin lab and remote field deployments.

• 1–4 years in an IT administration / systems admin / DevOps / InfoSec / "desktop engineering" role. Titles don't matter; scope does.

• • Azure GCC High Tenant or other sovereign-cloud experience.

  • CMMC / NIST 800-171 exposure: asset inventory, change control, and evidence discipline.

  • Network Admin experience: installing APs and cameras, configuring firewalls, IDS, and VLAN management (Cisco/UniFi/OpenWrt exposure).

  • PKI in practice: SCEP, EAP-TLS, certificate lifecycles.

  • Observability experience with Grafana / Loki / Prometheus.

  • Customer service focus: You enjoy helping people, want to be the smiling face of IT, and are excited to build and manage the future platform support team.

1. Initial screen with recruiter (30 min phone call)

2. Virtual interview with Director of Security (30 min via MS Teams)

3. Onsite interview in Austin, TX