Founding Operator.
Optimus OS is building a clinical-grade wearable device for those who have served. We need one person to help take it from validated thesis to operational reality.
This mission requires someone who has served in one of the military branches.
This is not a role for someone who respects veterans from a distance. We need an operator who understands how service members think, what they distrust, and what it takes to earn their confidence. If that's not you, this isn't the right mission.
This is not a job inside a finished company. This is an invitation to build one.
Optimus OS has completed its clinical validation phase. The device works. The veteran community needs it. What comes next is operator-level execution — building the distribution, the relationships, the systems, and the team. That's where you come in.
Veteran community relationships are being established.
Six responsibilities. One mission to build.
Own distribution
Build the relationships with VA systems, military installations, and veteran organizations. This is field work.
Talk to the community
Veterans, caregivers, VA clinicians, DOD health leads. 30 meaningful conversations a week until patterns sharpen.
Ship
Whether that's a partnership agreement, a pilot program, or a go-to-market system — you're the one who makes it real.
Build the operations
Hiring, compliance, systems, and the infrastructure that turns motion into a company.
Support capital and strategy
Understand the numbers, the roadmap, and the mission economics. Help make them work.
Earn your seat
Responsibility grows with results. Equity grows with impact.
Read both columns. Be honest with yourself.
The foundation is in place. We need the operator who will help build on it.
- You have served and spent meaningful time working to support and defend our country providing the freedoms that we enjoy today.
- You've built something before: a company, a program, a team, a system that actually ran.
- You move faster alone than most teams move together.
- You can sit in front of a veteran, a VA administrator, and a cap table — and feel at home in all three.
- You understand that clinical trust is earned differently than consumer trust.
- You're willing to be in the field, not behind a desk.
- You're looking for a comfortable senior IC role with a defined manager and clear scope.
- You think the veteran community is a market segment, not a mission.
- You want to join after the company is fully built.
- You think “founding” is a title, not a job description.
We're not telling the world yet. We're telling you.
The clinical data is strong. The partnerships are moving. What we won't publish yet: the full product roadmap, the launch timeline, or the distribution strategy. We'll walk you through everything on the second call. For now — the work is real, the upside is uncapped, and the bar is the highest we've set.
Five steps. No recruiters. No noise.
- 01
Apply
Tell us who you are. Loom encouraged but not required.
- 02
We read everything
Every serious application is reviewed personally.
- 03
First call
30 minutes. Mission, fit, and your background in service and building.
- 04
Working session
Half a day together. We give you the actual problem.
- 05
Offer & close
Equity, comp, scope, start date. Then we move.
Tell us who you are. In your own words.
No cover letter theatre. Write to us the way you'd write to a fellow operator you respect.
Most great companies are built by people who had to be there.
If that is you — for this mission, for this community, with this team — we want to hear from you.
Most people want a seat. A few people want to build the table.