Head of AI/ML

Head of AI

Critical Materials Group · 📍 Austin, TX

First AI hire at a defense energetics manufacturer, tasked with building ML/AI infrastructure from scratch and eventually leading a small team toward physical automation and agentic systems.

AI maturity

early

Company stage

startup

Source

freehire

Signals

⚠ ~40% travel requirement is heavy for a hands-on build role
⚠ no reporting line stated
✓ greenfield AI mandate with clear path to team build-out
✓ defensible niche in energetics/defense manufacturing with physical automation roadmap

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