About
Arachnid Systems is building the autonomous inspection standard for aviation, defense, energy, and space — replacing subjective manual methods with precise, repeatable, multi-spectral intelligence.
Our story
Manual inspection is the weakest link in critical asset maintenance. Aircraft, defense platforms, pipelines, and launch vehicles depend on human inspectors using decades-old methods — flashlights, magnifying glasses, and sampling-based spot checks that cover 60-70% of a surface on a good day. The other 30-40% is a bet.
We started Arachnid Systems to eliminate that bet. Our founding team — from Lockheed Martin defect-acquisition robotics, NASA hardware programs, Apple ops, Tesla manufacturing, USAF, Oracle, and Nokia / Epic Games AI infrastructure — saw the same pattern across industries: critical inspections performed by overstretched technicians with single-sense tools, generating subjective results.
ATLAS is the answer: an autonomous robot with six sensor modalities, AI-powered defect detection, and predictive maintenance intelligence. One platform. Complete coverage. Every time.
Arachnid Systems Corporation is a Delaware C-Corp headquartered in the United States.
Team
Five co-founders who shipped real hardware inside the organisations that already run aerospace and defense — Lockheed Martin · NASA · Apple · Tesla · USAF · Oracle · Nokia · Epic Games · Caltech · Disney. Now applied to industrial inspection.
CEO & Co-Founder
Apple · Kongsberg · Yokohama · GM · reddot award
Aerospace systems engineer. Led quality at a manufacturing plant running 1,600 part numbers across automotive and aerospace audits — drove revenue +20% and rework −85% via DOE and structured evaluation. At Arachnid, Ben drives strategy, fundraising, and defense acquisition pathways.
CTO & Co-Founder
Unreal Engine · Nokia · Rakuten · T-Mobile
AI and big-data specialist. Built systems across Nokia, Epic Games, applied AI research, and 5G protocol work. At Arachnid, Priyan owns the sensor-fusion AI/ML stack and the data architecture that turns six modalities of raw signal into defect calls and predictive forecasts.
Head of Product & Co-Founder
Lockheed Martin · NASA · Caltech · Disney
Built defect-acquisition robotics for Lockheed Martin — the exact problem space ATLAS sits in. Prior hardware at NASA, Caltech, and Disney. At Arachnid, Ellie owns development, prototyping, and data integration — translating field requirements into shipped hardware.
VP Business Development & Co-Founder
USAF · Oracle VP of Negotiations · Palisade Compliance · integreon
Aviation veteran. USAF service. Former Oracle VP of Negotiations for Fortune 100 accounts. UCF mentor. At Arachnid, Stephen owns commercial and defense pipeline development — converting active prototypes into recurring contracts.
VP Engineering & Co-Founder
Apple · Trackonomy · Tesla · Ethicon (J&J)
Manufacturing lead from Apple, Tesla, and biomedical-device production. At Arachnid, Nick owns production engineering — the path from prototype to deployable hardware at aerospace tolerances, including suppliers, tooling, and the build process behind every ATLAS unit.
Optics Consultant
Chronos Photonics · Mars Perseverance Rover · Luminar Technologies
Optics at Chronos Photonics. Prior: Mars Perseverance Rover (JPL) and Luminar Technologies. At Arachnid, advises the ATLAS sensor head — camera selection, hyperspectral channel layout, and LiDAR alignment across the six-modality stack.
Open roles
4 → 12 FTE in the next six months. Engineering, field ops, sales.
Partners & technology
Active engagements with the agencies, primes, and platforms shaping the next decade of aerospace and defense.
NASA Kennedy Space Center
Active partnership for launch infrastructure inspection. ATLAS technology validation on space launch facilities.
Lockheed Martin
Active partner program for defense platform inspection. Twelve prototypes delivered to defense primes.
GDIT
Active partner program for DoD maintenance applications.
SpaceWerx · AFWERX
Air Force and Space Force innovation engagement for autonomous inspection technology transition.
AFRL
Air Force Research Laboratory collaboration for advanced inspection technology development.
DIU
Defense Innovation Unit commercial solutions pathway for defense adoption.
SOFWERX
Special Operations Command engagement for SOF-specific inspection applications.
Commercial aviation MRO collaboration for airline maintenance operations.
FEAM Aero
Line maintenance partnership for commercial aviation inspection.
Embry-Riddle
Research partnership for autonomous inspection technology validation and workforce development.
BlackShark.ai
3D digital twin and geospatial intelligence integration. Synthetic data generation for AI model training.
NVIDIA
ATLAS runs on the Jetson AGX Orin edge computing platform — 275 TOPS of AI processing at the point of inspection.
Partner logo grid (12 logos)
All 3rd-party logos require written permission before display — see MERGE_PLAN.md §1.3 & §1.6Advisors
Six advisors. No equity. Each with concrete operational relevance to defense procurement, capital markets, intelligence, or aerospace programs.
US Navy veteran. Operational maintenance perspective across surface and aviation platforms.
Cenfluence. Florida high-tech corridor and regional ecosystem access for defense and aerospace scale-ups.
Seraphim Space. Space-tech investor perspective on dual-use aerospace and downstream capital strategy.
CIA Security Operations. Strategic intelligence on geographic risk, operating posture, and threat-model framing for defense customers.
Keysight Defense. Test and measurement instrumentation across defense electronics — the buyer view on signal integrity and validation tooling.
Northrop Grumman B-21 program. Stealth platform operations and prime contracting at scale.
Backed by
Two of the most rigorous capital partners in space-tech and global finance back ARACHNID's mission to make autonomous, multi-sensor inspection the new standard for aerospace, defense, energy, and space-launch assets.
The world's first venture fund dedicated to space technology. Portfolio includes the operators defining the modern launch and earth-observation stack.
Visit seraphim.vcOne of the largest financial institutions in the world, bringing deep aviation, defense, and infrastructure-finance relationships to ARACHNID's commercial buildout.
Visit JPMorgan Innovation EconomyJoin us
We are hiring engineers who want to work on hard problems — autonomous robotics, multi-spectral sensing, predictive AI, and defense-grade systems. If you have built things at places like Lockheed Martin, NASA, Apple, Tesla, Anduril, or Palantir, we should talk.
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