If you're a great meteorologist or engineer, or just plain talented, we want to hire you. See below for more information on WindBorne's existing team & the open roles.
To apply, email resumes and portfolios to jobs@windbornesystems.com.
WindBorne Systems is seeking to expand our Growth team with a Head of Private Sector Growth who will play a key role in accelerating our commercial growth and 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 the rest of our Growth team to execute expansion strategy as well as our engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams to ensure that our products meet customer needs.
More detailsWindBorne has won federal contract awards every year since our founding. As this is a trend we will continue, we are hiring a Proposal Manager to own government proposal efforts, from capture through development and submission. Sitting at the cross-section of business development, product, and organizational strategy, you will be key to growth and federal go-to-market execution. The ideal candidate will possess expertise in both writing compelling deliverables and managing cross-functional projects.
More detailsWindBorne is seeking a Numerical Weather Prediction Scientist to contribute to the improvement of weather forecasting and climate analyses. As a member of the weather team, you will incorporate WindBorne’s unique state-of-the-art weather balloon constellation observations into the most advanced weather prediction systems. You’ll work with our entire team of scientists, engineers and flight controllers to influence the collection and use of observations from start to finish, beginning with balloon flight and ending with insights to help consumers, businesses and governments adapt to changing weather and climate.
More detailsWindBorne is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to work on our AI-based weather modeling. We’re looking for generalists who love getting in the weeds and will be hiring multiple people over the course of the next year to work on this team. You will play a pivotal role in scaling up the world’s most accurate medium-range weather models.
More detailsWindBorne is looking for a Software Engineer to work on our AI-based weather forecasting infrastructure. We’re looking for generalists who love getting in the weeds, and will be hiring multiple people over the course of the next year to work on this team. You will play a pivotal role in scaling up the world’s most accurate medium-range weather models.
More detailsWindBorne is looking for a Software Engineer to architect, build, and maintain fleet management systems that handle thousands of balloons simultaneously flying across the globe. You will be enabling dynamic data & targeting objectives while scaling trajectory optimizations to increase endurance, all while building safe automations to minimize balloon loss & incidents without human intervention. This is an intentionally broad set of tasks that require a systems-level understanding & excitement of how your software fights the crushing constraints of the real world, from cursed GPS interference from solar flares, to avoiding terrain collisions due to discretization edge cases, to the navigational operationalization of our own WeatherMesh forecasts. As a key player in expanding the world's largest atmospheric sensing network and the world's highest accuracy AI weather predictions, you'll contribute to groundbreaking work that has far-reaching implications.
More detailsWindBorne is looking for a Firmware Engineer to work on our firmware that flies on thousands of balloons around the globe. You will be getting your hands dirty in the lowest levels of software, creating extremely efficient and fault tolerant sensor and communications solutions to maximize the value of our constellation. As a key player in expanding the world's largest atmospheric sensing network and the world's highest accuracy AI weather predictions, you'll contribute to groundbreaking work that has far-reaching implications.
More detailsWindBorne is looking for a Software Engineer to help build mission critical infrastructure as we scale our global operations. You will be scaling core launch automations & manufacturing throughput, optimizing bottlenecks while ensuring peak performance with robust fault-tolerant availability. This is an intentionally broad set of tasks that require a systems-level understanding & excitement of how your software keeps the spice flowing, from our custom distributed telemetry protocol to our in house manufacturing & validation workflows. As a key player in expanding the world's largest atmospheric sensing network and the world's highest accuracy AI weather predictions, you'll contribute to groundbreaking work that has far-reaching implications.
More detailsWindBorne is looking for a Fullstack Web Developer to help build our mission control suite and forecast viewer. Our mission control analyzes and displays telemetry from our constellation of balloons around the world, as well as providing a range of tools for tracking manufacturing and planning launches. In the near future, we'll have thousands of balloons aloft at once, and improving our tools is critical to enabling that.
More detailsAs 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.
More detailsWindBorne is seeking a highly motivated, adventure seeking, and adaptable Operations Deployment Specialist to spearhead the expansion of our weather balloon launch site network across the globe. This role requires someone at the center of a highly varied Venn diagram that includes technical competency, regulatory processing capability, being a cultural chameleon, and the ability to manage extremely dynamic projects.
More detailsWindBorne is seeking a highly motivated and organized Operations Coordinator to ensure smooth operations of our global network of weather balloon launch sites. This role will coordinate across both internal and external teams, while being a key pivot point in achieving our goals of collecting atmospheric data to improve forecasting. This person should be a stickler for detail, always looking two steps ahead, and excited to help continuously improve the people and systems around them.
More detailsWindBorne is looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer, Scaling to help us scale from producing tens of units a month to producing hundreds and eventually thousands. This includes designing, optimizing and maintaining both flight hardware and the tools and procedures used to build them.
More detailsAs the Financial Controller at WindBorne Systems, you will play a critical role in managing and strategizing our financial operations, working closely with the CEO and Chief of Staff. This role demands a detail-oriented and results-driven individual who is adept at overseeing financial and accounting activities.
More detailsWindBorne Systems is supercharging weather forecasts by fusing our unique proprietary data source, captured though our constellation of next-generation, smart weather balloons, with groundbreaking deep learning modeling. We’re on a mission to solve environmental and weather uncertainty to help humanity mitigate and adapt to the most immediately destructive aspects of climate change. From better predicting severe weather to accelerating the adoption of renewables, we’re committed to unlocking the Earth’s intelligence to make the world safer and more sustainable.
WindBorne’s platform has five years of proven, global operations. We secured our first million-dollar contract within a year of our founding and have consistently grown our revenue and customer base since. We supply critical weather observations to a number of federal agencies, including NOAA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and are currently expanding into commercial. We also collaborate with international meteorological agencies and researchers globally.
Over the next year, we are scaling our atmospheric coverage and building new AI-based products to meet the demands of current and future public and private sector customers. From expanding our environmental sensors, to increasing the efficiency and precision of our autonomous balloons, we’re committed to augmenting our capacity to meet market demands without sacrificing our quality or innovation. We’re currently expanding our diverse, mission-driven team with our latest funding to do just that. See our open positions below.