I'm Roman, co-founder of 9 Mothers. We're building AI weapon systems in Austin, TX. Our first product is designed to stop group 1 suicide drones. We started in 2025 and are still a small team of fewer than 20 people.

We're hiring for a lot of roles: software, robotics, ee, perception. I'm primarily focused on robotics, so if you have a strong background in robotics, reach out to me directly at (name)@9mothers.com.

All roles are here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

I'm Roman, co-founder of 9 Mothers. We're building AI weapon systems in Austin, TX. Our first product is designed to stop group 1 suicide drones. We started in 2025 and are still a small team of fewer than 20 people.

We're hiring for a lot of roles, but mostly in software and robotics. I'm primarily focused on robotics, so if you have a strong background in robotics, reach out to me directly at (name)@9mothers.com.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

We're a YC company building AI-driven turrets to stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: experts in some part of robotics who are happy to jump in wherever needed.

U.S. persons only.

Contact CTO directly at roman@9mothers.com with your portfolio of previously built robots

We're building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: people who are experts in one area but happy to jump in wherever needed. Our software team is small, so every member makes a real impact.

If you want to write motor control in Rust, optimize camera processing with custom CUDA kernels on Jetson, or rework a transformer-based tracker to handle small objects - you can do that here, and much more.

US persons only

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

We're building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: people who are experts in one area but happy to jump in wherever needed. Our software team is small, so every member makes a real impact.

If you want to write motor control in Rust, optimize camera processing with custom CUDA kernels on Jetson, or rework a transformer-based tracker to handle small objects - you can do that here, and much more.

US persons only

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

We're building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: people who are experts in one area but happy to jump in wherever needed. Our software team is small, so every member makes a real impact.

If you want to write motor control in Zig, optimize camera processing with custom CUDA kernels on Jetson, or rework a transformer-based tracker to handle small objects - you can do that here, and much more.

US persons only

Send your CV, GitHub (or any publicly visible project), and a short note to jobs@9mothers.com

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

And in the process of playing ‘police’ they end up taking down one of the best videos explaining how Bitcoin works.

I initially aimed for an cheap monthly pricing plan and many clients, but that strategy hasn't been successful so far.

However, in the process of finding clients, I found two 'enterprise' customers. I built a custom on-premise version for them and charging $300 per month for each, which technically sums to over $500. Not sure it is what I wanted )

I always thought the idea was somewhat weak, but not enough to discard entirely. So, along with a friend, I built a prototype over the last two weeks, and now we're trying to validate it: https://scanningfox.com/

I'm enjoying using Elixir for this project. As a long-time Erlang dev, I was initially skeptical about Elixir, but Phoenix.LiveView has changed my opinion.

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