Apply · Head of Security, Compliance and Mission Operations

Clearing questions

1. Are you a U.S. person under U.S. export control laws, meaning a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee? *

YesNo

2. Are you willing to work primarily in person in Austin and travel domestically and internationally? *

YesNo

4. Have you personally owned or administered ITAR or EAR compliance, as opposed to advising on it? *

YesNo

5. Have you served in the U.S. military, or worked directly in DoD, intelligence, national security, or defense industry operations? *

YesNo

6. What is your current security clearance status? *

Not required to apply. We ask because an active clearance changes how fast you can start working.

7. Have you personally supported international defense, government, or export controlled commercial engagements? *

YesNo

8. On a typical day, how many hours do you work with AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok? *

Less than 11–33–55 or more

Track record

9. Describe the export control, security, compliance, or mission operations system you have owned most deeply. *

Which decisions were yours? What did you personally execute? What belonged to counsel or another team?

0/100 words

10. Give one specific example where a rule or a perceived restriction threatened to slow an important mission. *

What was actually required, what was not required, and how did you find a compliant path forward?

0/100 words

11. What would you personally put in place in your first 30 days, and what would you deliberately avoid creating? *

Assume a 15-person hard-tech company that is opening a hardware lab, running high voltage, RF, cryogenic, vacuum, magnet, and machine shop equipment, talking to foreign defense companies and governments, sending drawings and hardware to outside vendors, using AI heavily, and preparing for government contracts. Keep it practical.

0/120 words

12. The CEO has a call tomorrow with a foreign defense company interested in Stellios technology. What do you do in the next 24 hours to enable that conversation safely and legally? *

We are testing whether you can enable the meeting, not identify reasons it might be risky.

0/100 words

13. A critical custom component must be machined and returned within one week. The preferred shop may employ foreign nationals and the drawing may contain export controlled technical data. How do you solve it without delaying the build? *

0/100 words

14. Name three people who would describe you as the person they trusted when something could seriously go wrong. *

One line each: name — their role then — the situation.

0/90 words