Careers · Multipolar Defense
Build things worth building, for customers who need them.
Multipolar Defense builds simulation, decision-support, and analysis products. About half of our customers are commercial companies; the other half are government programs. We are a small team on purpose, which means the work you do here ships — and you see it used.
How we work
Three beliefs that shape how this company operates day to day.
Ship, then improve
A working product in a customer’s hands teaches more than a perfect plan. We keep the distance between an idea and something usable as short as we can.
Ownership is real
When something is yours, it’s yours — the decisions, the mistakes, and the win. We don’t add layers between people and their work.
Side projects are welcome
The ideas nobody asked for are often the interesting ones. We’ll work with you to build, iterate, and test them — and if one is worth commercializing, we’ll help you do that, inside Multipolar Defense or as a venture of your own.
Where would you fit?
Eight questions, about a minute. We’ll point you at the kind of work where you’d do your best — even if we haven’t posted that role yet. Either way, you’ll leave with a straight answer.
It’s Monday morning. Which problem would you most want on your desk?
Open positions
We hire in small, deliberate waves, as capital and customers allow. Nothing is open at this moment — the next wave is posted here first, and the people we have already met hear about it before it goes up. There is no portal and no formal application: send your resume and tell us what you’ve done, and it comes to our team.
No active open roles right now
We hire in small, deliberate waves, and nothing is open at this moment. and we’ll reach out when the next role opens — often before it is ever posted.
Don’t see your role? .
How we hire
Your time is valuable, and so is ours. We treat people like adults and respect the effort that goes into applying — three conversations and a decision, no take-home projects, no timed tests, no unpaid work. No AI interviews either, though we do notice when AI does the talking for you. What we’re actually trying to work out is how you think, whether you’re disciplined and reliable, whether you’re still willing to learn, and whether you have integrity.
A conversation
Thirty minutes, virtual, with someone who does the work you’d be doing.
Meet the people you’d work with
A second conversation with your prospective team. You bring examples of work you’ve already done, and we talk about how you think.
The offer conversation
We talk scope, compensation, start date, and the first ninety days — the practical questions, answered directly by whoever will be your manager.
A decision within a week
You hear from us within a week of the final conversation, with a clear reason either way.
End to end, the process usually takes two to three weeks.
Questions people ask
Where is the work located?
The work is virtual by default. If a role requires you onsite, it is for a specific reason — a classified setting, or a visit to a customer or partner — and the role page will say so.
Do I need a security clearance?
Only if the role needs one, and it says so on the role card and the role page. Where a role allows it, we sponsor.
How big is the company, really?
Small, and it will stay that way for a while. We grow in waves as we raise capital and add customers, which is why a role that fits you may not be posted yet.
I don’t see my role, but I’m interested.
Take the eight-question fit quiz above, then . We read everything that comes in, and we go back to people we have already met before we post a role publicly.
No role that fits? Tell us what you’d build.
Not everyone builds something. Tell us what you’d want to learn, run, fix, or sell — and what you’d want to be responsible for. We open positions when the mission demands them, sometimes for people we haven’t met yet.