The board
- Where
- Austin, TX
- Posted
- Aug 26
Company Overview
ACS (Allen Control Systems) is a defense technology company building precision robotic systems for the United States and its allies. Founded by two former U.S. Navy electrical engineers with deep experience in robotics and software, ACS brings together AI, computer vision, precision motion, and advanced hardware to solve complex defense challenges across land, air, and maritime environments.
Our flagship product, Bullfrog, is an autonomous precision weapon system that transforms existing weapons into highly accurate counter-drone systems — giving warfighters a scalable, cost-effective response to one of the fastest-growing threats on the modern battlefield. Bullfrog is deployed with U.S. forces, and ACS works with organizations throughout the U.S.
What you'd do
- Experience with government progress payments and the inventory and billing mechanics that accompany them.
- Familiarity with DCAA audit processes and incurred cost submissions.
- Has worked through a significant production ramp from LRIP to full-rate production and understands how cost structures shift at scale.
- Experience with multi-level BOM costing for electromechanical assemblies.
What they want
- Hands-on experience building or running cost accounting at a company that physically manufactures hardware; not software COGS, not services.
- Proficiency with standard costing systems: setting standards, running cost rolls, analyzing variances, and explaining them to non-finance audiences.
- Direct experience implementing or heavily using the manufacturing/costing module of an ERP system such as NetSuite, SAP, Epicor, or similar.
- Solid understanding of inventory accounting across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods, including the journal entries that move between them.
- Background at a scaled, engineering-driven manufacturer in defense, aerospace, robotics, industrial hardware, or an adjacent field; someone who has seen production ramp and understands what that does to unit economics.
- Able to work cross-functionally with engineering and operations; you are a partner to the people building the product, not a back-office function.
- On-site in Austin, TX.
What you get
- Competitive salary
- ACS Equity Package
- Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
About Allen Control Systems · Enablement
ACS is ramping production of Bullfrog, our autonomous counter-drone weapon station, from initial units to hundreds of systems per year. We are seeking a Cost Accountant to build the cost accounting infrastructure from the ground up: standard costs, variance analysis, inventory valuation, and the manufacturing costing module of our ERP. This is a mid-to-senior individual contributor role reporting to the Corporate Controller.