Built in the desert for the operators who keep things running.
Arizona Copper State Solutions was founded in Phoenix by people who believe that the most important infrastructure in the country deserves software built with the same toughness the people running it bring to their work every day.
The name is not incidental. Copper built this state — the mines, the refineries, the electrical grid that runs on the metal pulled from Arizona earth. We carry that lineage into what we build: something durable, something foundational, something that works when conditions are hard.
Five things that drive every decision we make.
The work happens in the field.
Critical infrastructure is not operated from glass offices with perfect Wi-Fi. It is operated in 115-degree pit floors, in substations three hours from the nearest city, in server rooms where the cooling system has not been replaced since 2008. We build for those environments, not against them.
Data without context is just noise.
Operators do not need more dashboards. They need the right information at the moment it matters — formatted for a decision, not a report. Every design choice in our platform asks: what does the person running the facility actually need to see right now?
Security is not a compliance checkbox.
The systems we monitor are targets. Power grids, mines, military installations, and data centers are not abstract attack surfaces — they are places people depend on. We treat security as a fundamental design constraint, not a feature to be scoped.
Arizona builds things.
The Southwest has a long tradition of doing hard, physical work that the rest of the country depends on — copper mining, power generation, defense manufacturing, water management. We are built here, for that tradition, with the same expectation of reliability.
Honest about what we do not know.
We are a young company building in a domain that demands precision. When we do not have the answer, we say so. When a feature is on the roadmap rather than in production, we will tell you. The operators we build for cannot afford surprises — and neither can we.
The people behind the platform.
Daniel is a product leader who has spent his career at the boundary between complex operational environments and the software that is supposed to serve them. He has shipped products used by 1,700+ legal professionals at McDermott Will & Emery, deployed computer vision checkout systems across thousands of 7-Eleven locations globally, and built field tools for the Walmart technicians keeping 4,500 stores running — each role rooted in the same question: what does the person doing the actual work need right now?
Before corporate product roles, he spent five years at COPLEX — a corporate innovation studio in Phoenix — guiding 50+ companies from concept to revenue across healthcare, legal, logistics, and finance. That foundation in early-stage execution, marketplace dynamics, and rapid prototyping shapes how he thinks about building ACSS: fast validation, tight feedback loops, and zero tolerance for software that looks good in a demo and fails in the field.
He studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University and was a member of Seth Godin's inaugural altMBA class. He has consulted businesses across Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile through the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and spent four years building homes with Habitat for Humanity in Nepal, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, and Romania. The pattern is consistent: show up where the work is hard, and do it with the people already there.
Anthony is an Arizona native who has spent his career building products that people actually want to use — not because they have to, but because the design respects them. His work spans Fortune 100 innovation programs, LinkedIn-scale product systems, and the community-driven design ecosystem he helped build across the Phoenix metro.
He brings the forge to the desert. His design philosophy is built on the same principle that makes a good knife: intention in every edge, nothing wasted. Products designed for builders, not browsers — for the operator who needs to make a call at 2 AM on a screen with scratched glass, not the executive who reviews the quarterly report in a conference room.
At ACSS, he is responsible for translating operational complexity into interfaces that flatten the learning curve and accelerate the decision. The desert ethos runs through every pixel: earn your place, survive the conditions, do the work.
We are looking for people who are serious about hard problems.
ACSS is an early-stage company building for some of the most consequential infrastructure categories in the country. We want engineers, domain experts, and operators who understand that the stakes are real.
Senior Platform Engineer
Full-timeWe are building a horizontally scalable edge-to-operator data platform for mission-critical infrastructure. Looking for engineers who have built distributed systems under real operational constraints and are not afraid of the field.
Industrial IoT Integration Engineer
Full-timeOwn the integration layer between industrial field devices and the ACSS platform. Deep experience with Modbus, DNP3, OPC-UA, and the reality of what connectivity looks like in a mine or substation required.
Defense Sector Account Executive
Full-timeManage and grow relationships with DoD and defense contractor customers. Must have existing network in defense IT, program management, or installation operations. Security clearance a significant plus.
Not seeing your role?
We hire for capability and fit, not just open headcount. If you bring deep expertise in industrial operations, defense technology, infrastructure security, or platform engineering — and you believe in what we are building — send us a note.
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