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Open roles

If you're a great meteorologist or engineer, or just plain talented, we want to hire you. We'll also consider interns in just about any discipline. Email resumes and portfolios to jobs@windbornesystems.com.

WindBorne Systems is supercharging weather models with a unique proprietary data source: a global constellation of next-generation, AI-enabled weather balloons targeting the most critical atmospheric data. We design, manufacture, and operate our own balloons, using the data they collect to generate new, novel weather intelligence. Our mission is to eliminate weather uncertainty, and in the process help humanity adapt to climate change, be that predicting hurricanes or speeding the adoption of renewables.

WindBorne’s platform is already proven in operation. We landed our first million-dollar contract within a year of our founding, and we have since consistently grown our revenue and customer base. We supply critical weather observations to a number of federal agencies, including NOAA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, and we also collaborate with international meteorological agencies.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Over the next year, we are scaling our current production and building new products to meet the demands of our existing customers, as well as future customers in the private and public sectors. We are also adding new sensors to our current platform, for capabilities including air quality measurement, lightning detection, and greenhouse gas detection.

WindBorne just closed a new round of funding in May 2023, and we are expanding our diverse, mission-driven team. In particular, we at WindBorne are keen on augmenting our capacity so that we can meet global market demands without sacrificing our quality or innovation. See our open positions below.

Chief of Staff

Email your resume to jobs@windbornesystems.com to apply

WindBorne is looking for a Chief of Staff to keep the company running smoothly as we scale towards our vision of radically better weather forecasts that help in the fight against climate change. As Chief of Staff, you will work closely with the CEO & business team to ensure the company can operate effectively, with a focus on day-to-day company administration, compliance, and managing customer contract execution.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

We’re looking for a flexible generalist whose core competence is being on top of the details. Day to day, your job is to make sure the company runs as smoothly as possible, be that doing the paperwork for new hires, working with our bookkeeper on payroll, or keeping the lights on in our offices (both figuratively and literally). Specific responsibilities include:

  • General HR administration (e.g. putting together paperwork for new hires, managing our benefits packages)
  • Managing contract execution, establishing realistic timelines with customers and proactively ensuring the rest of the WindBorne team is fulfilling requirements
  • Maintaining relationships with key external stakeholders (e.g. running update meetings with our government customers, giving them tours when they visit, etc.)
  • Working closely with bookkeepers, lawyers, and accountants to ensure they can do their jobs effectively
  • Monitor company cash flow and other finances, and flag issues to the CEO (e.g. a major payment being delayed)
  • Maintaining compliance with local, state, and federal regulations (e.g. registering us to store more compressed gas at our workspace, keeping legally required signage about labor laws up to date, etc.)
  • Overseeing upgrades to our offices (e.g., specing out a mission control room) as well as general workspace management
  • Establishing systems for and managing compliance with US Department of Defense information security requirements
  • Supporting the CEO in handling the inevitable unexpected tasks (a recent example: the Silicon Valley Bank debacle)

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • 2+ years of experience in a relevant field, eg grant writing, government relations, business development, or sales
  • Scrappiness
  • A love of lists and a refusal to let things slip through the cracks
  • Incessant desire to proactively make things better
  • High level of proficiency with Google Suite (docs, slides, sheets, gmail, calendar), with a particular focus on spreadsheets
  • Experience working within a Digital HQ chat platform, e.g. Slack
  • Exemplary organizational skills

Nice to have

  • Rudimentary python or equivalent skills for basic data analysis and manipulation
  • Experience in an early-stage startup
  • Strong presentation skills
  • U.S. citizenship

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

The position is in-person.

Business Development Lead

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WindBorne Systems is seeking a Business Development Lead to facilitate our government sales growth and help build and execute on a commercial go-to-market strategy. You will be responsible for identifying and pursuing new sales opportunities, as well as managing and expanding our existing customer relationships. You will work closely with our lead proposal writer for submitting to new opportunities as well as our engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams to ensure that our products meet customer needs.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Manage relationships with government and commercial contacts and expand existing contracts
  • Run outreach campaigns and lead generation processes
  • Convert leads to contracts
  • Work with other team members to develop grant applications and other communication materials as necessary
  • Develop a deep understanding of WindBorne’s technology and how it can be applied to solve various government and commercial challenges
  • Attend domestic and international trade shows and conferences, running demos and presenting WindBorne’s technology
  • Work with business operations ensure contracts are executed smoothly
  • Work with business operations to ensure contracts are executed smoothly
  • Work closely with founding team on commercial go-to-market strategy and product scoping

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • 4+ years of experience within the weather industry
  • Experience selling Software-as-a-Service products
  • High level of proficiency with Google Suite (docs, slides, sheets, gmail, calendar)
  • Strong writing and communication skills, including the ability to talk about deeply technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical customer audiences
  • Enough scientific & engineering knowledge to understand how our technology works and impacts weather forecasting
  • Willingness to operate in a fast-paced environment and make tradeoffs between quantity and quality of work
  • Experience working within a Digital HQ chat platform, e.g. Slack
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Persistence and dedication when following up with external parties

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with government procurement processes
  • Experience selling weather-related products or services to government agencies
  • Experience demoing technical products

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

Flexibility for remote work is offered.

Sensors Engineer

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As Sensors Engineer, you will be responsible for the calibration of thousands of sensor packages and for managing the automated processes to perform quality control and bias correction of real-time flight data from around the globe. As we continue to scale, you’ll work on optimizing processes and look for ways to improve the sensing package and calibration systems, in terms of capabilities, throughput, and quality.

At its core, WindBorne’s vision is to sense as much as is physically possible, everywhere in the world. Starting with weather sensors — temperature, humidity, winds, and pressure —presents a delicate balance of meteorological-grade quality, cost optimization, manufacturing scalability, and extreme environmental conditions. When further combined with the unique performance characteristics of our balloon platform, this tradeoff makes for a very exciting yet challenging problem. As the platform matures, a myriad other sensors — with a myriad of other fun problems — will be developed as well.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Work on automated custom calibration processes as we scale from hundreds to tens of thousands of balloons while maintaining stringent meteorological accuracy standards
  • Characterize and investigate errors of the system, which can be introduced anywhere in the process from calibration to flight, and write scripts to monitor quality as we scale up
  • Improve and maintain software for processing real-time meteorological data, with automated quality control and rejection of bad data, as well as bias correction
  • Think about potential hardware improvements to sensing mechanisms and calibration rigs to improve throughput and/or data quality, and collaborate with other engineers to implement these changes
  • Develop and implement new test equipment for better performance characterization of sensor hardware to guide design iteration
  • Investigate and prototype new types of sensors to add to the platform

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor's or higher degree in a STEM field
  • Experience applying statistics, fitting, and optimization
  • Experience with processing large datasets
  • Experience interfacing with sensor hardware and characterizing new data sources
  • Standard Python scientific toolbox (Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, etc.), Python scripting.
  • Familiarity with the basic underlying physics in common sensors
  • Familiarity with the Linux command line, bash, etc.
  • Familiarity with C and C++
  • High level of proficiency with Google Suite (docs, slides, sheets, gmail, calendar)
  • Experience working within a Digital HQ chat platform, e.g. Slack
  • High attention to detail to catch issues and concerns before they compromise the accuracy of our data

Nice to have

  • Firmware and electrical prototyping (low level C, PCB design, soldering, etc.)
  • Mechanical prototyping (CAD, 3D printing, basic machining, etc.)
  • Software development experience in a team setting
  • PhD in experimental physics or electrical engineering

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

The position is in-person.

Ground Systems Engineer

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WindBorne is looking for a Ground Systems Engineer to design, build, and maintain launch equipment that will be used daily at multiple WindBorne launch sites worldwide. You will play a leading role in creating the hardware that allows for quick, safe, and reliable launches in a wide range of conditions, as well as updating hardware to handle increasingly adverse weather and meet the needs of our rapidly evolving flight platform. You will work closely with the R&D and operations teams to maximize our launch capabilities as we scale to hundreds of daily launches from over a dozen locations.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Improve on existing balloon launch support equipment to enable reliable launches in a wide range of weather conditions by a single trained operator
  • Work closely with the R&D team to ensure flight hardware and launch equipment are co-designed to operate effectively
  • Assemble and maintain launch equipment for use around the world
  • Work with the logistics team and launch contractors to ensure ease of shipping and site setup, and reliable operations in the field
  • Assist in developing training materials and checklists for launch contractors
  • Perform R&D on on-site gas generation systems to ease logistics in highly remote locations
  • Develop systems and operational concepts to automate aspects of the launch process
  • Support flight hardware R&D

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • 3+ years of mechanical engineering experience
  • Experience taking projects through all stages from initial concept through design, assembly, and test
  • Proficiency in CAD (Solidworks preferred)
  • Experience designing for 3D printing, laser cutting, and manual machining
  • Strong hands-on experience
  • Proficiency with basic machining tools (drill press, saws, hand-tools, etc.)
  • Experience working within a Digital HQ chat platform, e.g. Slack
  • Willingness to travel occasionally
  • Strong preference for creative but mechanically simple designs over feature-rich and complex ones

Nice to have

  • Experience with compressed gas systems
  • Electronics skills (soldering, use of test equipment, board design)
  • Familiarity with designing systems for all-weather operation

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

The position is in-person.

Manufacturing Engineer

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WindBorne is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to support maintaining, optimizing, and developing our production as we scale from producing tens of units a month to producing hundreds and eventually thousands. You will play a critical role in increasing manufacturing output without diminishing quality, troubleshooting & providing technical support on the production line while working closely with our Electrical Engineering team. This covers areas including test system troubleshooting, PCB troubleshooting, reliability, and quality.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Track failure rates and determine types of failures of incoming PCBAs and mechanical assemblies
  • Identify manufacturing issues with boards and assemblies, and provide suggestions to improve manufacturability
  • Respond to failures on the production line. Troubleshoot and determine if further mechanical, electrical, or firmware engineering assistance is required.
  • Implement new procedures and set up manufacturing stations
  • Update test fixtures when required
  • Inspect units returned from the field. Assess potential trends that range from shipping defects through launch failures
  • Place orders for new boards and assist with IC supply chain management

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
  • 2+ years experience in an electronics manufacturing environment
  • Hands-on experience troubleshooting circuit boards and electronic assemblies
  • Familiarity with standard electronic test equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, power supply, etc.)
  • Ability to understand electro-mechanical system design and functionality
  • Basic understanding of electrical schematics
  • Basic proficiency with Linux
  • Familiarity with surface-mount soldering
  • Strong communication skills
  • Extreme attention to detail
  • Experience working within a Digital HQ chat platform, e.g. Slack

Nice to have

  • Manufacturing experience (QC, Design for Manufacturability, etc.)
  • Experience with transitioning hardware from prototype to production
  • Exposure to IC supply chain management
  • Familiarity with PCB and PCBA manufacturing processes
  • Experience with Altium
  • Experience with mechanical CAD and 3D modeling, preferably SolidWorks

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

The position is in-person.

Flight Autonomy Engineer

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WindBorne is looking for a Flight Autonomy Engineer to write software that autonomously manages thousands of balloons at once. Each balloon has complete control over its flight altitude at any point in time, but it must manage finite resources. Ground servers issue commands to the constellation by optimizing multi-agent objective functions; each balloon operates autonomously based on those commands. Your job will be to manage this system from a high-level, modifying and designing algorithms, and implementing and managing the software that runs them. For more information on the role, reach out.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Develop and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for autonomous flight control, navigation, and decision-making for our smart weather balloons
  • Collaborate with other engineers including hardware, software, and data analytics to design and optimize the overall system performance
  • Test and validate autonomous flight algorithms through simulation, ground testing, and in-flight experiments
  • Manage the software that runs the algorithms you develop with standard software engineering practices
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant research, industry trends, and state-of-the-art techniques

For more information on the technical problems to be solved by this role, reach out.

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or a related field
  • Strong experience and proficiency with C++ and Python
  • Strong experience with Stochastic Gradient Descent based methods
  • Strong background and understanding in the math at the foundation of machine learning and control theory, such as linear algebra, statistics, and vector calculus
  • Good understanding of how to efficiently leverage high performance compute
  • Ability and willingness to get hands dirty in low level software
  • A strong preference for a software engineering oriented languages like Python or Julia over MATLAB & Simulink
  • Scrappiness

Nice to have

  • Experience with Convex Optimization
  • Experience with Python <> C++ interfaces
  • Familiarity with Clang and LLVM
  • Experience writing software in a team setting
  • Basic Ruby

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

In person strongly preferred.

Meteorological Operations Specialist

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WindBorne is seeking a Meteorological Operations Specialist to control our balloon constellation so that it collects as much high-quality data as possible, from supporting launch planning to operating balloons in the air. You’ll use WindBorne’s extensive suite of software tools to navigate the balloon constellation and resolve flight issues caused by unexpected weather conditions or hardware failures. You’ll work with our team of software engineers and meteorologists to implement new features in our software systems that will be valuable for both flight control and customer usage.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Fly WindBorne’s constellation of weather balloons using an in-house developed suite of software management tools
  • Provide short-term weather forecasts to plan launch times
  • Collaborate with engineering staff to track and isolate issues that are impacting flights
  • Provide suggestions for improvements to the flight software that will lead to better constellation management
  • Notify government agencies, including the FAA and aircraft Hurricane Hunter teams, of balloon launches and flight paths
  • Conduct balloon launches when needed to support operations
  • Remotely audit and support staff launching balloons at our global launch locations
  • Monitor collected weather data to assure it meets quality standards
  • Manage remote launch site resource levels and work cross functionally to avoid gaps in operations

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science, Meteorology, or a related field
  • General weather forecasting skills
  • Strong understanding of meteorological observations, weather radar and satellite and numerical weather models
  • Digital native who’s willing to learn complex software tools
  • Exceptional telephone, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to adjust priorities based on changing conditions in a time-constrained operational environment
  • Ability to work shifts outside of normal business hours
  • Scrappiness

Nice to have

  • Experience with analysis of meteorological data using Python
  • Linux usage and administration
  • Computer hardware setup

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

This position is in person at California office or at our future Boston area satellite office.

Product Manager

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WindBorne is looking for a product manager to own product discovery and related tasks, accelerating our path toward launching a new forecast product that helps accelerate the transition to renewables. As product manager, you will report directly to the chief product officer and work closely with our business and engineering teams, transforming our technological capabilities into something customers can use.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Own the discovery phase for our new forecast product, brainstorming featuresets and refining them with customers
  • Augment existing market research with additional customer conversations to support product ideation
  • Translate findings from product discovery into specifications for engineering, including providing insights into priority and design
  • Work with senior leadership to establish product roadmap & timelines
  • Support business team in refining go-to-market strategy
  • Support feature planning in existing product lines
  • Identify and address product risks and challenges
  • Stay up-to-date on competitor’s offerings

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • 3+ years experience in a product management role
  • Experience conducting product discovery for a complex software product
  • High level of proficiency with prototyping tools like Figma
  • High level of proficiency with Google Suite
  • Experience working within a Digital HQ chat platform, e.g. Slack
  • Strong organizational skills
  • A love of talking to customers & understanding their needs

Nice to have

  • Background in design
  • Experience in the weather industry
  • Experience in an early-stage startup
  • Experience conducting user testing

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

The position is in-person.

Head of Comms and Marketing

Email your resume to jobs@windbornesystems.com to apply

WindBorne is looking for a Head of Comms & Marketing to communicate our mission to customers, investors, and the broader public as we scale towards our vision of radically better weather forecasts that help in the fight against climate change. As Head of Comms & Marketing, you will work closely with the founding team to define our messaging, then be responsible for getting that messaging out there.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Own execution of communications and marketing strategy
  • Communicate our climate mission the broader world, explaining both our ability to dramatically reduce global emissions and help on the adaptation side
  • Explain WindBorne’s technological advances to reinforce our positioning as the most innovative player in the weather space
  • Work with founders to develop messaging in greater detail
  • Ensure messaging consistency across our website, social media, marketing campaigns, publications, etc.
  • Generate a steady cadence of media coverage, running the process from press releases through to publication
  • Scope and manage our social media presence
  • Develop content aimed at potential hires such as blogs and video
  • Create general marketing collateral for trade shows and other events

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • 2+ years experience in an communications position
  • Experience making and managing contacts within the media
  • Sufficient knowledge & scientific background to understand a deeply technical product and communicate it to the general public
  • Experience working within a Digital HQ chat platform, e.g. Slack
  • Excellent writing
  • An eye for good design

Nice to have

  • Startup experience, ideally in deep tech or climate
  • Design skill & experience with tools such as Figma
  • Experience in video creation

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stock Option Plan
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

In person strongly preferred.

Assembly Technician

Email your resume to jobs@windbornesystems.com to apply

WindBorne Systems is looking for an Assembly Technician to grow its manufacturing team. You will be a part of the group responsible for assembling small weather balloon payloads, with the purpose of gathering atmospheric data over otherwise unobserved areas. If you have a passion for technology and the desire to be a part of an effort to drastically improve weather forecasting and tackle climate change please send your resume, optional portfolio of what you have assembled in the past, and include in the email what makes you excited about this opportunity! Pay is $22/hr.

We're dedicated to both mitigating climate change and helping humanity adapt to its effects as fast as possible, and you can be a part of our mission to make this global societal impact. If you like the idea of working on cutting edge technology, and working with a fast moving team, WindBorne is the place for you.

Image of a WindBorne balloon
Map of hundreds of WindBorne's flights, covering the entire northern hemisphere
Balloon flight paths from over 500 flights conducted by WindBorne

Roles and responsibilities

  • Building intricate assemblies to integrate into a balloon payload
  • Electrically and mechanically testing parts throughout the assembly process
  • Soldering onto delicate PCBs
  • Working with chemicals
  • Working on processes where high attention to detail is required
  • Working in a highly variable environment with improvements being implemented often
  • Training new technicians as team grows
  • Meeting weekly quotas for your part of the manufacturing process
  • Using proprietary software test and track manufacturing progress

Skills and Qualifications

Required

  • Excellent hand dexterity
  • Familiarity with hand and power tools
  • Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail and process
  • Comfortable working with small and delicate materials
  • Ability to follow written instructions provided by the manufacturer to build final product
  • Ability to manage time effectively in order to finish tasks needing completion in a timely manner
  • Ability to work with others in a friendly and professional manner in a highly collaborative environment
  • Ability to adapt to new procedures
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced environment where priorities can change quickly
  • Able to work during operating hours of 9am-5pm, M-F at Palo Alto, CA location

Nice to have

  • Previous soldering experience
  • Experience working in a clean room environment
  • Experience manufacturing small electronics
  • Familiarity with Linux
  • Experience in working on a small team/startup environment

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 2 weeks PTO
  • Office food and beverages

Location

Address: 858 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

The position is in-person.

What our hardware looks like

Closeup of a WindBorne balloon
Launch rig
Photos taken in Svalbard, Norway, 78°N